Re: Hotmail's trying to get me to stop using OE to check my mail.
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- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:00:30 -0500
"Ryan Cabanas" <jimmyrig1042@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O0vl9rsSFHA.628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a few really old Hotmail accounts that are still able to be used with OE. The one that I mainly use has been getting a lot of flak from Hotmail lately. They will temporarily stop my OE access to the account and then send me an email saying that I need to verify the account. So I have to go to the link and type in the stupid letters and numbers and then I can use OE with it again. Seems to be getting worse. Should I expect that access via OE will just be shut down permanently in the very near future if I don't wish to pay for OE access?
Hotmail accounts created before 27-Sep-2004 were grandfathered in to leave them with WebDAV access from Outlook [Express]. That doesn't mean that their anti-spam measures for freebie accounts won't also affect your old freebie accounts. The intervening security authentication page is an anti-spam measure to prevent spammers from scripting their client to walk through the webmail pages to spew spam from Hotmail. If you don't want your freebie Hotmail account occasionally going dead which requires you use their webmail interface to get past the intervening security page then pay for your Hotmail account.
Freebie accounts will occasionally get hit with requiring the intervening security page. Doesn't matter that you have a grandfathered account. It is a freebie account and this anti-spam measure applies against all freebie accounts. I got tired of having to requalify my account by using their webmail interface to requalify my account, so I abandoned it. I see Yahoo is starting to do the same for their freebie accounts (which causes a similar lockout when using YahooPOPs with freebie Yahoo Mail accounts; see http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1975). I wasn't going to waste my money on a Hotmail account (and won't waste it on Yahoo Mail, either). So while they still provide freebie accounts, they pretty much are pushing their users to use their webmail interface.
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