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21-06-2008, 08:42 AM
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Group: Regulars
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Hotmail account is not available for Mail?
Hey I have experiencing some problems with my Mail, as I no longer can get the new mails for my Hotmail account. A friend of mine told me the same thing last night.
Is there any way to fix this? or this service is no longer available for Mail user? Any other replacement?
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21-06-2008, 09:21 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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I was under the impression that hotmail did not work on Desktop mail clients, as they would lose their website advertising - which is how they keep paying for the service.
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21-06-2008, 09:27 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Gold Coast
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I use alittle free app called MacFreePOPs v2.5 Allows me to have free Hotmail & Yahoo accounts in Mail.
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21-06-2008, 10:07 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Originally Posted by rickyd
I was under the impression that hotmail did not work on Desktop mail clients, as they would lose their website advertising - which is how they keep paying for the service.
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That is exactly right 
You know how much M$FT loves their advertising.
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21-06-2008, 10:16 AM
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Member
Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Except that Hotmail has been accessible on the PC side through Outlook since Office 2003 
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21-06-2008, 10:49 AM
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Still stuck in 1984
Group: Regulars
Location: Inside your head
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I've had mixed success with MacFreePOP, gotmail and one other "hotmail-forwarder" app, resulting in failed transfers and even loss of mail messages. I ended up settling on using a shareware program called Mail Forward and gmail as an intermediary, and it has worked flawlessly. I use my gmail account as my primary mailbox, which my mail program (in my case, Eudora) can download from easily,and Mail Forward runs as a background (hidden on startup) program that runs every 30 minutes and automatically forwards all my Hotmail messages to gmail.
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21-06-2008, 11:04 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Free hotmail accounts won't work... they would work with httpmail, but that got broken in the last Leopard update and at the end of June, the hotmail protocol is changing so it's not going to be unbroken ever.
It's the end of hotmail for me...
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21-06-2008, 11:10 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Colac
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Ever is a long time.
You could probably bet that it would be broken within a few weeks or so.
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21-06-2008, 11:27 AM
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Resident Pirate
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney Metropolitan
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Join Lavalife for free!
Any email service that has the same targeted ad for a decade deserves to die.
When Gmail came out, I discovered that it had POP3 email access. I switched within a week (this was during the invite-only period).
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21-06-2008, 11:33 AM
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Group: Regulars
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One more vote for gmail ... it got free IMAP access about a year ago.
Very reliable.
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21-06-2008, 11:35 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Adelaide
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Originally Posted by Steiny
Except that Hotmail has been accessible on the PC side through Outlook since Office 2003 |
what are you talking about? outlook express up to version 6 supported hotmail, and afterwards windows live mail desktop supports hotmail and all other pop3 and imap email accounts for that matter.
and newsgroups, and RSS feeds.
and its free.
and theres no ads.
and its only for windows.
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21-06-2008, 11:44 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: destined for sea-change
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rasta
Free hotmail accounts won't work... they would work with httpmail, but that got broken in the last Leopard update and at the end of June, the hotmail protocol is changing so it's not going to be unbroken ever.
It's the end of hotmail for me... |
See HTTP Mail Plugin now for 10.5.3. Yay!
for the time being it works with Leopard 10.5.3.
M$ have postponed changing their system. |
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21-06-2008, 11:47 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by macaholic
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yeh it works now but by the end of this month it will stop workin
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21-06-2008, 11:53 AM
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Member
Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Originally Posted by sanjay
what are you talking about?
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Um, aren't we both on the same wavelength here? Debunking the "hotmail did not work on Desktop mail clients, as they would lose their website advertising" bit? I was just giving one example that came to mind, and you've provided others (albeit we're both still talking about PCs).
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21-06-2008, 12:01 PM
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: hopelessly addicted
Group: Regulars
Location: destined for sea-change
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cmanou
yeh it works now but by the end of this month it will stop workin
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No. That change has been postponed:
Reprieve: Hotmail for Mail.app not (quite) dead | Hawk Wings
But nobody knows when M$ will switch to the new system. |
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