Chris, you always seem to beat me to the send button. Well this weekend I will claim to be in laid-back mode since it is a holiday weekend where I live.
Of course I agree with your comments with one caveat. Please read my comments and let me know your experience. As I mentioned I find that, even with a US location for my free Yahoo account, I now find that I have POP options available to me. Not only that - within the POP options is the ability to have the contents of the Junk mail folder included in the download of the POP mail Inbox. Is that available in your geographical location? Regards, Alan On Jul 3, 11:00 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > One reason that no-one else has mentioned. Some workplace IT systems > block access to the normal POP ports on any servers other than the > companies own mail servers. If you want to read your Hotmail or Yahoo! > mail at work you either have to use the websites or the extensions. > > On 03/07/2011 15:41, VulcanTourist wrote: > > > Since GMail, HotMail, and Yahoo already support POP3 delivery > > internally, and accounts for those services can be configured as POP3 > > in Thunderbird with the publicly available servers for each, exactly > > when and why would these extensions ever be needed for those services > > in particular? It seems that this adds an unnecessary level of > > complexity, since HTTP is not an e-mail protocol and changes to how > > the "Webmail" interfaces work could break these extensions, which > > NEVER happens with POP3/SMTP. > > > When are these actually needed? > > --
