No, that is incorrect for majority. 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
On 30/07/2010 21:50, Mauricio 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
