Re: Hotmail's trying to get me to stop using OE to check my mail.

Just out of curiosity, would someone be able to provide me with a link so
that I can read up on how Microsoft's anti-spam attempts lead to the
discontinuance of OE access to your Hotmail account? Thanks.

Ryan Cabanas


<Vanguard> wrote in message news:O4vzGVtSFHA.3552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "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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