Re: http mail
- From: "Vanguard" <vanguard.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:37:51 -0600
"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OemzM5dPGHA.812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
There are no POP3 or SMTP mail hosts anymore for Hotmail.
POP3/SMTP mailservers for MSN mail is still around but only a very few "legacy" customers have POP3 access to their name@xxxxxxx accounts.
Hotmail, which is what MSN uses now, dropped the POP3/SMTP mail hosts a long time ago. MSN probably had their own POP3/SMTP servers before cutting over to using Hotmail. So it is probably MSN that still has mail hosts for grandfathered MSN accounts. Since the OP said they got Qwest just 3 weeks ago, there's no way the OP is going to get access to whatever "legacy" POP3/SMTP mail hosts may still exist.
Hotmail started July 1996. Microsoft acquired Hotmail around December 1997 (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1997/Dec97/Hotmlpr.mspx). On July 2002, Hotmail dropped access to POP3/SMTP servers. I don't know what was happening over at MSN regarding their mail servers (I never got suckered into using MSN just because Microsoft spewed it on the Windows desktop). MSN switched from whatever they were using to then use Hotmail which, by then, had no POP3/SMTP servers anymore. So if there are legacy MSN users still able to access POP3/SMTP servers, they are remanants from whatever MSN used before switching to Hotmail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail
The the OP, the short answer is: No POP for you.
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