Eugene,
BTW what do you have your Thunderbird:timeout set to?
This is mine in the prefs.js file:
user_pref("mailnews.tcptimeout", 300);
On Aug 30, 12:07 am, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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:
