Re: http mail

Hotmail, which is what MSN uses now, dropped the POP3/SMTP mail hosts a
long time ago.

Kinda/sorta. name@xxxxxxxxxxx accounts are all WebDAV now but there are an admittedly small number of MSN "legacy" subscribers (e.g., mae) who continue to access their name@xxxxxxx (or name@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) accounts in OE via POP3.

[To] the OP, the short answer is: No POP for you.

/That/ is correct. New name@xxxxxxx accounts are WebDAV (and even that's going to change soon).
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~PA Bear


Vanguard wrote:
"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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