Mozilla Thunderbird

[Moxxu]

I've recently installed the email client "Mozilla Thunderbird", and I would like to know if it is possible to set a hotmail account in Thunderbird. When i am using the thunderbird wizard to create the email account, i need to give it the incoming and outgoing server settings, however, as far as i am concerned hotmail uses the HTTP, while in thunderbird there are only Pop3 and Imap.

Any suggestions how can i set up this account ?

Thank You

[NoteMe]

Are you in Windows or Linux? At least in Linux I am able to install aditional packages for Thundebird, to be able to use exchange server and so on.


But you can try with this firs:

POP3 = pop3hot.com
SMTP = mx1.hotmail.com

or

pop3: mail.pop3hot.com
smtp: mail.pop3hot.com

You can find some more info about it here:
http://forum.theispguide.com/ftopic351-0-asc-15.html


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[penagate]

You can't set Thunderbird to use Hotmail accounts without a plug-in (There was one, but I think Microsoft changed their software so it wouldn't work). The reason is, HTTP mail is a proprietary Microsoft technology, not a standard.

[techgnome]

It isn't so much that HTTP mail is proprietary (there isn't sucha thing) so much as they don't make the mail servers publicly available, forcing you to go through the web-based interface. Part of this is for scurity so that some one can't jsut hijack their servers and use it to send out spam or other junk.

Now, according to <a href="http://join.msn.com/?page=hotmail/plans&pgmarket=en-us&ST=1&xAPID=1983&DI=1402">this page</a> if you want to pay $20-$60 a year, you could then access your HM account via Outlook (but it doesn't say anything about other mail clients.)

Tg

[dglienna]

My Outlook access stopped for a bout a week when that announcement came out, but just when I was getting ready to change all my accounts, they turned it back on.
I wonder if it was because I started manually forwarding all my hotmail to my other account?
I have always used my ISP to send hotmail messages, anyways.

[robertx]

if you want to pay $20-$60 a year, you could then access your HM account via Outlook (but it doesn't say anything about other mail clients.)
Tg

When you say "access", do you mean POP your hotmail?

Moxxu - I've converted from IE to Firefox. Is it worth it to convert from Outlook to Thunderbird?