It occurs to me that I should ask whether you are aware of the freely real available POP and SMTP servers now available for Hotmail?
The only real need for these Webmail add-ons for Hotmail are for those users who cannot access the secured server ports required by Hotmail or those who wish to download from custom folders on the Hotmail server. On Feb 16, 9:46 pm, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahhh ... I confess I have never personally used or tested the > extension before today. > > However I believe I see what you mean. I too can reproduce the > situation where the "from" address is not correct and appears to come > from me and the original sender in a mix-n-match "from" line" (real > sender's name and my email address). > > Nevertheless I have done some further testing and there may be a > fairly simple solution for a Hotmail user. I am sorry to say that I > believe the problem you are seeing is caused by using the Webmail > extension to send mail. The Webmail Author has to convert the SMTP > stream and insert the relevant fields into HTML pages to send the mail > through the Hotmail web interface and when this path is used there is > a failure to send the mail with all the correct headers as set up by > the Redirect add-on. This is not the same as using a real SMTP > server. > > As far as my testing shows your simple solution is to change (at least > for the time of re-sending your email to the server) the SMTP server > for Hotmail to use the freely available real SMTP server of Hotmail. > > Edit your Hotmail SMTP entry ... changes needed are: > > Server: smtp.live.com > Port 587 > > Security: STARTTLS > > If you then perform the redirect again (just start with one message) I > hope you will find all is working as expected. > > On Feb 15, 10:48 am, Rajeev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hey alanrf.. i tried the redirect extension.. i doesnt really upload > > the email.. it kinda sends the mail back to my account as if i sent > > the account.. > > > so i am missing out on the actual "from" part of the email.. any ideas > > to work around this? > > > On Feb 15, 7:34 pm, Rajeev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > well i did had a feeling that it was sumthing to do with thunderbird > > > as i set the option to delete from the server only after i delete it > > > locally.. and yet it went on deleting most of my emails.. > > > > alanrf.. thanks for the link and for the detailed info :) the long > > > reply was worth reading :D > > > > i will try out the link u posted and let u know how far it worked out > > > for me... > > > > On Feb 15, 11:53 am, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It is, I think, worse than that. > > > > > I reported a problem in the management of the popstate.dat file years > > > > ago in Thunderbird that means that the "arrival date" of messages in > > > > the popstate.dat can be misreported. I have not done the analysis > > > > again in T3 but I suspect it still means that messages are often > > > > deleted earlier than the x days limit selected in Thunderbird. The > > > > Mozilla folks almost need you to point to the line of code to get > > > > something fixed. I had to do that recently with a T3 upgrade problem - > > > > now I have told them precisely what to fix they have got round to > > > > doing it. > > > > > There are a couple of points to be made about deletions in > > > > Thunderbird. > > > > > - once you have deleted a message it can not be undone. Moving the > > > > message back to the Inbox is totally irrelevant, the deletion will > > > > have been recorded in the postate.dat file and cannot be undone. > > > > > - some folks may have opted to keep the old Thunderbird setting that > > > > allowed for deletion of messages once moved from the Inbox. The > > > > setting can be seen via the config editor in Thunderbird > Tools > > > > > Advanced tab > General tab > Config editor > > > > > If the entry: > > > > > mail.pop3.deleteFromServerOnMove > > > > > is set to true then moving messages from the Inbox will result in a > > > > deletion on the server. > > > > > - the state of the messages in the mail folders it totally irrelevant > > > > to the deletion or download of messages in Thunderbird. The decision > > > > to download or delete message is totally controlled via the use of the > > > > popstate.dat file. > > > > > On Feb 14, 11:25 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > it is not these add-ons that decide what messages to > > > > > > download or to delete. the decision is made in the main Thunderbird > > > > > > program. > > > > > > If the option to leave messages on the server is checked, are the two > > > > > sub-options, "For at most x days" and "Until I delete them" both > > > > > unchecked? Either will cause messages on the server to be deleted, > > > > > either after the specified time, in which case the message will still > > > > > be > > > > > in Thunderbird, or when you delete messages in Thunderbird. > > > > > > alanrf wrote: > > > > > > See this Thunderbird add-on for restoring messages to the POP > > > > > > server: > > > > > > >https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/550 > > > > > > > Note in the comments for a link to an updated version compatible > > > > > > with > > > > > > Thunderbird 3. > > > > > > > By the way it is not these add-ons that decide what messages to > > > > > > download or to delete. the decision is made in the main Thunderbird > > > > > > program. > > > > > > > On Feb 14, 3:56 pm, Rajeev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > >> Hey guys.. > > > > > > >> Iv been using this extension for few months now to retrieve emails > > > > > >> from Hotmail.. Since it is working well i stopped using my web > > > > > >> based > > > > > >> email client.. > > > > > > >> Today i got the surprise of my life.. I am missing 119 emails in my > > > > > >> inbox on the server... Sent messages, junk mails are synced > > > > > >> properly.... > > > > > >> i have all those missing emails available locally in Thunderbird.. > > > > > >> It > > > > > >> seems they have been downloaded and then deleted from the server.. > > > > > >> At the start, when installing this extension (before doing the > > > > > >> initial > > > > > >> download of the emails), i set the option to leave the messages on > > > > > >> the > > > > > >> server until delete them.. > > > > > >> This option is still set the way i did few months ago.. > > > > > > >> I wanna know how to get these 119 emails back on to my server.. > > > > > > >> I have something interesting to note.. my inbox is not entirely > > > > > >> empty.. i have the last 6 emails on the server.... > > > > > > >> anybody any clues? anyway to upload/import these emails back to the > > > > > >> server? > > > > > > >> Would appreciate any help > > > > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. 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