Hotmail Replacement

[dsharits]

Hi all,

Since Micro$oft has discontinued support for the HTTP Mail Plugin, I can't get any of my mail without logging on to the host sites. Is there any way of importing my mail into Mail with any of my addresses? I have a Hotmail account, a Yahoo account and a GMail account. I want to use the Mail.app for receiving e-mail (preferably from GMail), but I will gladly shift over to any one of the accounts if I can get any of them to work with Mail. Any ideas? Thanks!

Daniel

 

[vashim66]

Why bother?

Just use Gmail and ditch Mail. If that's not an option, you might want to check out Mozilla Thunderbird...I've found it to be a lot better than Apple's Mail program. It's also open source so there's probably a better chance that there's a plugin that will do what you want.

 

[iLikeMyiMac]

here is a way to read your gmail with mail.app
click me
I don't use it because using it in the browser is fine for me but you could give it a try.

 

[Gee]

Hi all,

Since Micro$oft has discontinued support for the HTTP Mail Plugin, I can't get any of my mail without logging on to the host sites. Is there any way of importing my mail into Mail with any of my addresses? I have a Hotmail account, a Yahoo account and a GMail account. I want to use the Mail.app for receiving e-mail (preferably from GMail), but I will gladly shift over to any one of the accounts if I can get any of them to work with Mail. Any ideas? Thanks!

Daniel

It's possible with Yahoo, and I do it. Somewhere on the yahoo mail site, in your mail preferences, there's a setting to enable access from mail programs (something to do with POP3). Enable this, then set up the account in Mail, and you're good to go. I think you'll still have to have access to an SMTP server to send mail, such as the one provided by your ISP, but apart from that, quite straightforward.