Actually, Thunderbird DOES work with Hotmail, cos I've been trying it! You
have to install 2 Thunderbird extensions - Webmail and Hotmail support.
Thunderbird then contacts Hotmail (or other Webmail clients) by simulating
POP3. Seems to work fine.

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Frank Slootweg wrote:

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marrie wrote:
Thunderbird won't work with hotmail accounts, well not that i know of
anyways. Take care.

*Anything* (that does POP) will work with Hotmail accounts (and most
other webmail services for that matter): FreePOPs [1] is your friend.



If you are using FREE hotmail service then you can only use MS email
clients - such as OE or OL. You seem to be quite sure when you say:

"Anything* (that does POP) will work with Hotmail accounts (and most
other webmail services for that matter)"

Have you tried using other email clients to download messages from FREE
hotmail account? When I say FREE hotmail account, I mean old accounts
which were set to use OE or OL to download messages before the charging
came into force.

I have tried using Netscape but it didn't work.

Other free accounts you can use a

http://www.aim.com
http://www.yahoo.co.uk

Yahoo.co.uk is an english version that allows you to use OE or OL or for
that matter anything to download and post messages. Same with aim.com
(aol free service).