Re: http mail

my server is listed like this
(http://oe.msn.msnmail.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/hmdata)

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Carl G
"Vanguard" <vanguard.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"mae" <agrannie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hotmail only stopped retrieving mail from your POP3 accounts for free
users.
It never stopped and continues to function for paid accounts.


Hotmail doesn't use POP3 at all. It uses WebDAV. Even paid accounts use
WebDAV.

If your free Hotmail account was created before 29-Nov-2004, it got
grandfathered in so you could continue to use Outlook [Express] to connect
to the WebDAV-enabled mail hosts to send and receive.

If your free Hotmail account was created after 29-Nov-2004, WebDAV access
is disabled so you are stuck using Microsoft's webmail interface. You
cannot use POP3 (to receive) or SMTP (to send).

Whether an old or new Hotmail account, paid accounts have WebDAV access
enabled. They do NOT use POP3 (to receive). Read the setup instructions
at http://snipurl.com/n51v. Notice you are instructed to setup an
HTTPmail account (and that uses WebDAV scripting).

Back in June 2002, Microsoft stopped POP3 access altogether from their
Hotmail service and required users that wanted to continue using POP3 to
switch to the MSN mail service; see
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,101981,00.asp. I'm not
experienced with MSN but I thought they switched over to Hotmail. Hotmail
is what they show on their home page for their mail service. I suppose in
the same way Microsoft grandfathered in old free Hotmail account to
continue WebDAV access past the policy change date that they might've also
continued POP3 access for old MSN accounts (the "legacy" accounts that PA
Bear mentioned) before the switch to using Hotmail. Do you have a msn.com
or hotmail.com account for an e-mail address?


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