Eugene,

I wish there was more help I could give - well there may be but I am
not sure I want to return to AVG to try to help.

Hotmail (free accounts) will not accept attachments larger than
10Mb ... I sent a larger attachment earlier to my Hotmail account and
Hotmail has just thrown the message away (without any notification).
However 10Mb is not what it seems.  In the encoding of attachments
necessary for using POP3/SMTP there is about a 23% overhead in size in
the encoded attachment.  So I just sent an ~8Mb attachment to one of
my free Hotmail accounts.  It was downloaded without any issue by the
Hotmail add-on and it was scanned by by my anti-virus program (avast).
There may be good reasons why the great and the good moderators of the
Mozilla Thunderbird Mail forums switched their allegiance some time
back from AVG to avast.

I hope that the Webmail Author will forgive this ungenerous comment
but ... given the freely available SMTP service of Hotmail I can see
no valid technical reason for not using it when it provides an ability
to send emails with a capability that matches the old WebDav
functionality of the Hotmail add-on and surpasses the current reduced
capability of the http limited add-on.  About the only downside I can
detect (and I recognize its importance to some) is that the sent
messages do not appear in the sent folder on the Web interface of
Hotmail.

Regards,

Alan

On Aug 29, 3:08 am, KE4AVB <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would need to differ on that the addons all are working just fine,
> this is as I am unable to download large emails using the Hotmail
> extension even with my virus scanner is disabled. I am unable to send
> emails while my virus scanner is online using the webmail extension.
> Only the attachments get sent while the scanner is online. The only
> way I am able to received my Hotmail is thru my AOL account (Firewall
> normally blocking pop3 access). I have no problem receiving using
> regular pop3 accounts. I had the Firewall pop3 block turn off for over
> the weekend while everyone else is off work. AVG scans fine on receive
> on these types of accounts.  SMTP's are also working fine with virus
> scanner, except for webmail version. So from my impression, the
> webmail extension and it add-ons are do have some problems.
>
> As far disabling gzip compression it doesn't fix my problem nor did
> increasing the timeouts as suggested by the webmail author. I have
> ended up disabling the Hotmail Webmail extension as it useless for me
> in it current state, for now I just gave up trying to use it.
>
> I do know that I had very few problems the Hotmail add-on until the
> conversion by MS to the new website layout. With all the changes that
> were done to the extension somewhere along the line something most
> likely got mis-programmed or overlooked.
>
> Eugene
>
> On Aug 28, 1:36 pm, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The add-ons for Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail are working just fine.
>
> > Unfortunately, as has been pointed out, a workaround is needed by some
> > users for Hotmail until Microsoft fixes a problem it has caused for
> > those users in the latest changes to Hotmail.
>
> > Checking for the presence of emails is child's play compared with
> > actually getting the source of messages from the Webmail sites or for
> > delivering mail via the Webmail sites, updating the status of messages
> > and deleting messages from the Webmail sites as needed.
>
> > Is there some further help you need?
>
> > On Aug 28, 7:09 am, kammah <[email protected]> wrote:

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