No, that is incorrect. The Hotmail POP has been given free to everyone in the UK for several years, this is not a new thing, and i have been using POP and hotmail on my Smartphones for Years and I use POP as a backup to Thunderbird on my Opere Mail, but I do not switch to POP on thunderbird as the Webmail Hotmail is 10,000 times better that the Free POP taster Microsoft throws our way. A Small handful only would be happy using the standard free POP/SMTP from Hotmail, and you might be one of those, but to make the that standard POP/SMTP to work , if you do not want to surf the web to check your hotmail spam/junk twice a day, you must go to hotmail online and Turn OFF fitering spam and junk and turn off the junk folder, as Microsoft enjoys throwing important emails there, until moved. If Microsoft still allow you to turn junk philtre off. With regular POP/SMTP, You Have no access to any folder, although you have an in and sent folder it has no bearing with what is displayed on the website, and no junk folder either. When you receive, it appear in in box, whilst your hotmail web has 6 months emails in not deeted. The reason most use Webmail Hotmail for years, and very specifically chose not to use the freebie POP is so they can be liked to the other fofders to have premium features without having to use ms rules by upgrding to paid or using the website. So if you can switch junk off, if still an option on hotmail, some might use receive and send. With Wemail uses the same technology POP for the inbox, but as a bonus, the creator has used POP, somehow, to copy from the Hotmail web pages, other folders, like Spam/Junk. However it is very unwise to try change an existing webmail folder with years of data to a regular POP account, but use a new account. It is even more unwize to chage to an IMAP What you see is what you get. Good and all the best. When I get home I will post my error log. Thanks again for a wonderful application. There is always the chance ms will make a massive change the author cannot overcome but they have been sayin that for 5 years qnd we r still here. Sorry for typos. I have Huntingtons and dyslexic takes ages and exhausted and unable to proof read. Have used Thunderbird many years and netscap before. :-)
-- Sent from my Palm Pre On 30 Jul 2010 21:50, Mauricio <[email protected]> wrote: This means thats Webmail/hotmail is no longer necessary? On Jul 28, 9:36 pm, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > Thunderbird has no problems accessing Hotmail if you use the Hotmail > POP/SMTP servers that are free to use for all Hotmail accounts > worldwide. > > In fact Thunderbird will set up the correct server names/ports/secure > connections if you just let it. > > On Jul 28, 2:07 pm, John Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah its not working for me either and I have installed the latest > > update. > > > What I cannot understand is how come other e-mail clients have no > > problem accessing hotmail when Thunderbird has so many problems
