Hotmail sucks ass too!

[JanusChrist]

So I downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird today deciding to do so having an overall positive experiance with Firefox. Turns out not only will Thunderbird not work with Hotmail but neither will ANY email client including Outlook and OE!! To be "allowed" to use an email client with my hatemail account, I would have to pay 20 dollars a year to "upgrade" it.

Thanks Microsoft. You've built the bridge to the 21st century. Too bad for the rest of us it's a toll bridge.

[Orethrius]

Okay, if I'm not mistaken, you're attempting to make a POP3 client work with an IMAP account.  Charging for that transition is NOT a new thing, nor is it exclusively Microsoft's decision.  However, the asking price they've set is ludicrous.

[bedouin]

Hotmail doesn't even use IMAP, it uses some kind of proprietary protocol specific to Hotmail.  As far as I know they haven't cut off access to it through Entourage, Outlook, and Outlook Express yet though.  Are they still going through with that?

[JanusChrist]

It says right on microsofts website that you can't use Outlook and OE with Hotmail until you pay the ransom...er..upgrade fee.

[Refalm]

quote:Originally posted by JanusChrist:
It says right on microsofts website that you can't use Outlook and OE with Hotmail until you pay the ransom...er..upgrade fee.

You can at the moment, but in a month, you have to pay up to import your e-mail into the two most crappiest e-mail programs, namely Outlook and Outlook Express.

Contact me, I'll get you a Gmail account, you'll love it  

[cave32]

i think so!
msn hotmail is too bad,is for this reason witch i have changed my email with yahoo! mail
so very good,you've pop acces (with outlook or another mail program),250 Mb mail storage,10Mb atachements files,scanned with antivirus and anti-spam control
http://mail.yahoo.com

[Annorax]

It says right on microsofts website that you can't use Outlook and OE with Hotmail until you pay the ransom...er..upgrade fee.

Why pay to use a shit client to access a shit service? Use Thunderbird to access an email account at anywhere-other-than-Hotmail. End of problem.

[JanusChrist]

Why pay to use a shit client to access a shit service? Use Thunderbird to access an email account at anywhere-other-than-Hotmail. End of problem.

No offense, but read the whole thread before you make a post.

[MrX]

yep. uhuh.

Mr X:beos:!

[adiment]

G-G-G-Gmail

[Calum]

Why pay to use a shit client to access a shit service? Use Thunderbird to access an email account at anywhere-other-than-Hotmail. End of problem.

No offense, but read the whole thread before you make a post.

actually his reply was quite valid in my opinion. if you are having problems accessing your hotmail through an email client, then why are you still using hotmail? firstly, it's owned by microsoft, and their stuff is usually bollocks and/or comes with strings attached, and secondly, the service on this email account is clearly rubbish compared with many others, so why not take the advice of Annorax that JanusChrist poopooed and get a real email account so you can use it on your newly acquired real email client.

Gmail is my best recommendation for a free one, so i agree with e7ement. 1GB inbox space, and secure pop3 access...
the only issue is you have to get an invitation to open an account from somebody who already has one. i have one, and i have ten invitations to use up, so write to me at calumcarlyle AT gmail DOT com if you want me to send you one.

[oreally]

Here is a link to get a gmail account.  It took about a day to get a response.

gmail   :thumbup:

[sjweiler]

I agree, hotmail sucks.
Microsoft has done something and now I can't even use kopete with msn messaging service.
The only reason I even got a hotmail address in first place was because they required a hotmail address to get a passport login for their messaging service.
This does it for me; I'm dropping hotmail entirely.
I use my gmail for mail anyway.

[Calum]

well i found out that you can have any email address as your msn passport id. i still use gaim for chatting to msn messenger users, and my login is an @fuckhotmail.com address.

[Kintaro]

Don't use MSN and use social-emotional blackmail to make your friends migrate

Simpily claim for a month in advance that you will not use MSN Messenger anymore. When your friends say "OMGGG HOW AM I GOINGG 2 TALK 2 U!!!11oneone", then say "Well, you can still talk to me on Yahoo. I guess a lot of people will stop talking to me, but if I am not worth that effort to communicate with then I dont want to know them anyway".

This has problems: It only works with women, and girly men. However real men will be using other protcols and gaim anyway, so why the bother.