Re: http mail

Hotmail only stopped retrieving mail from your POP3 accounts for free users.
It never stopped and continues to function for paid accounts.
--
mae

"Vanguard" <vanguard.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OX5qMDjPGHA.2300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| "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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