Mail and HTTPmail - can send but not receive?

[Narcosynthesis]

I am a new mac user, so still getting to grips with the system and trying to get everything set up and working...

I have been trying to get the mail app working with some of my email accounts to integrate everything in one place, and (surprise surprise) have been having trouble with hotmail - I have downloaded the latest HTTPmail, and added my accounts following the various guides I found online. The problem is that I can send mail easily enough, but mail is not showina any new mail received through the hotmail accounts - I can easily send an email to my hotmail and gmail account, but only the gmail account will show a new message in mail, whereas I have to go through hotmail.com to read that I have a new message to the hotmail account.

The help I have found so far all seems to relate to being able to receive but not send mail, which is the opposite from my problem

Any ideas to set me going?

 

[macrem]

The best solution is to ditch hotmail for a free Gmail account: HTTPMail problem solved.

 

[macrem]

My was my comment in another thread on this subject, but this thread is in the right place ;-)

"Why people bother with hotmail is beyond my grasp.

I'd highly recommend leaving your problems completely behind you by getting a free Gmail account, which offers ~8GB and supports IMAP for FREE. Why bother with hotmail. Whenever I see a hotmail address I'm afraid its spam. HTTPMail problem solved once and for all. Only email your friends to inform them of your new gmail address and leave a ton of spam behind."

 

[Narcosynthesis]

I do run gmail accounts alongside the hotmail, but as I have used hotmail for many years up until lately I have a lot of existing registrations for various sites and newsletters and contact details working through hotmail that it would be a complete pain to change, so that is why I am wanting to run both...

 

[macrem]

I do run gmail accounts alongside the hotmail, but as I have used hotmail for many years up until lately I have a lot of existing registrations for various sites and newsletters and contact details working through hotmail that it would be a complete pain to change, so that is why I am wanting to run both...

If I understood correctly you can receive hotmail fine in in OS X Mail, but cannot send? Unless someone else provides info to fix this issue, maybe as a workaround you could use gmail as your smtp server for hotmail in OS X Mail.

 

[Narcosynthesis]

If I understood correctly you can receive hotmail fine in in OS X Mail, but cannot send? Unless someone else provides info to fix this issue, maybe as a workaround you could use gmail as your smtp server for hotmail in OS X Mail.

Wrong way round, I can send fine, but not receive - seemingly the opposite of the common problems

 

[macrem]

There's IzyMail, which I cannot endorse as never tried it but seems to be an alternative to polling hotmail directly via HTTPMail.

edit: another idea... is there a feature in hotmail which allows you to forward mail (to gmail)?

apparently some hotmail users can also use IMAP if webdav mode is available.

 

[Narcosynthesis]

Any ideas?

 

[Narcosynthesis]

At all?

 

[rhett7660]

Have you downloaded the news fix for HTTPMail?

What are your settings for outgoing?
What are your setting for incoming?
Did you enable IMAP?


I can't agree more with ditching hotmail. I had an msn account for well over 10 years. I had lots of forums, newsletters etc attached to it. It took a while but I have long since left it good bye. Best thing I ever did.

 

[Narcosynthesis]

Have you downloaded the news fix for HTTPMail?

What are your settings for outgoing?
What are your setting for incoming?
Did you enable IMAP?


I can't agree more with ditching hotmail. I had an msn account for well over 10 years. I had lots of forums, newsletters etc attached to it. It took a while but I have long since left it good bye. Best thing I ever did.

I have version 1.53 taken from the automagic download page, which to my knowledge is the most up to date version, unless there is a patch somewhere.

setup as per the guide that came with it from automagic.
how do I check the IMAP setting?