Adendum. choice may simply mean what Thunderbird gives you by default. If anyone sets up a Hotmail account in Thunderbird 3 then pop3.live.com will be set up as the default server. The developers of Thunderbird have no care or consideration for these Webmail add-ons at all and, I suspect, that they may to some extent deprecate them. I was simply advising you that, whatever you thought, you were not using the the Webmail extension for Hotmail. Now that you are I am glad that you are getting your mail delivered as so very many of us who have been using the add-on have experienced for some considerable time without interruption.
As for updates for Thunderbird ... since there are always very few desirable features in the latest major release of Thunderbird it is always a great idea to avoid updating Thunderbird to a new "major" release until the add-on developers have had a chance to make the add- ons compatible unless there is a feature you really want and your "must have" add-ons have been updated. I am still waiting for that to happen. On Jul 8, 5:59 pm, Adendum <[email protected]> wrote: > Alanrf, > > I haven't chosen anything, that's how it was set up from day 1. And > it's worked from day 1. > > So I've rummaged around a few sites including Mozilla and the author's > site and changed the server name to localhost on port 110 with no > connection security...and all accounts are downloading. > > I don't understand why it did work since day 1 with the pop3 settings > and decided to stop working a few days back. But I'm happy. > > On Jul 8, 3:02 am, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you see "connected to pop3.live.com" then you have chosen to use > > the direct pop connection now available for all Hotmail accounts and > > you are not using the Webmail add-on for Thunderbird at all. > > > On Jul 7, 4:12 am, Adendum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Been a Webmail user for a couple of years (great add-on - many thanks) > > > and I've become dependant on it. So when it stops working I panic!! > > > > It's stopped working in the last two/three days. I am running TB 3.0.5 > > > and have rejected the next update as several key add-ons wont work > > > with it. When I get mail I see 'connected to pop3.live.com' but > > > nothing downloads and no error messages or error windows. When I check > > > the server via Firefox I have loads of mail in all accounts. > > > > So what's changed and how do I fix it?
