You can't get your junk mail or sent mail with only POP, so you still have to login to the web site to see if you are missing any messages in the junk folder. Defeats the purpose of a windows based email client.
On Jun 20, 5:02 am, Ilan Copelyn <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect anyone using WebMail to read their hotmail will be having this > problem, so I doubt whether it's worth anyone's while for everyone to > keep confirming this. > > What are the downsides of using the POP3 connection (as mentioned by > Gary in this thread) versus the WebMail connection? I've just switched > over to POP3 and from what I can see the only downside is that the mail > does not get marked as read on Hotmail - i.e. even after I've downloaded > and read the mail in Thunderbird, the email still shows up as unread > when I log in to Hotmail via their website. > > If this is the only plus of the WebMail connection then I think I'll > just stick with POP3. > > On 2011/06/20 01:42 AM, MSW wrote: > > > > > > > > > Also waiting for an update. Can't get email... > > > On Jun 18, 11:42 pm, Kusal<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am also waiting for an update.
