ANONYMOUS wrote:

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)"

No, I did not say that. I said that *with* ": FreePOPs [1] is your
friend." added. I.e. the solution is FreePOPs. The type of email client
is irrelevant, as long, as I said, it does POP.

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 not tried myself, but others have. See the details at the
website whose URL you snipped (http://freepops.sourceforge.net.

No offense, but I don't appreciate when people silently snip the most
relevant parts. When such posters post as "ANONYMOUS", I like it even
less.

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

Of course it didn't. Unless you used some additional software *like*
FreePOPs. See also LKC's response.

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).

With FreePOPs you can use a multitude of free accounts. See the
website for details.