Re: Very odd hotmail problem

From: PA Bear (PABearMVP_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:37:51 -0500

Galen wrote:
> > (I for one am /very/ interested in finding out how these messages can
> > appear in Hotmail-in-OE/OL inbox but not at the online inbox!)
> > --
> Hotmail uses the HTTP protocol to deliver mail to a client which is
> proprietary and very much unlike POP3. The access through the servers
> isn't like accessing the web page at all and the specifics elude me.
<snip>

My point is that what the user sees in Hotmail-in-OE folders, including
Inbox, mirrors what's in the same folders at www.hotmail.com. What these
users are seeing is extremely unusual. (Yes, you're not accessing the same
server in OE as you are at the online page.) 

-- 
~Robear

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