Missed that Mac/Unix operating system point. The addons default to using
the standard Windows ports for POP and SMTP connections. All ports below
1024 are blocked by Unix systems, you need to change the numbers as Alan
says.
On 15/05/2011 23:26, alanrf wrote:
Couple of thoughts ...
You are on a Mac system so you cannot use the default port numbers in
the Webmail add-on. You will need to chose ports>1024 one for the
POP side and a different one for the SMTP side. You will need to
enter these ports in the main Webmail extension and in the Thunderbird
account settings for POP and the SMTP entry for Hotmail.
Also in the Thunderbird account settings the account name must be in
full including @hotmail,com.
As Chris mentioned security setting must be "None". Pass word
transmitted insecurely. This all happens inside your system between
Thunderbird and the add-ons. When the add-on logs onto Hotmail on the
Web the logon is done securely.
The Hotmail add-on will almost certainly download again any mail you
have sitting in the Hotmail Inbox.
On May 13, 5:33 pm, Confo<[email protected]> wrote:
I have been living with the limits of POP to read my Hotmail on TB,
but I'd really like to try this method.
Would it work if I installed the two addons, then changed the server
settings of the existing Hotmail account to match the webmail setup
(changing "pop3.live.com" to "localhost" and "smtp.live.com" to
"localhost"?
I tried creating a new TB account from scratch with the same username/
password and edited the server settings to "localhost", and nothing
happens. Also, I don't get the "Mode" tab in the component view, just
POP and SMTP.
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Mozilla/5.0
Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10
Web-Mail-1.3.12, Hotmail-1.2.30
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