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MSN email access through Mail

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curiosa863

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Does MSN block Mail from getting access? I'm using the settings from microsoft's Outlook guide... but Mail is getting denied.

If it is deliberate, is there a work-around?

Thanks a lot for any advice on the matter.
 
Sorry you can't use MSN in your Mail app. M$ won't allow it. Get a Gmail account instead which does work with Mail. If you need an invite I have heaps so let me know.
 
Actually, technically you can I believe, although you need the Hotmail "plus" account or whatever that means. It allows you to use pop to retrieve the messages. Originally, they gave some of the "plus" accounts away, but I believe most people have to pay like $20/year or something like that.
 
There are also programs you can use to forward your mail to them and then onto Mail.app but it's such a hassle. You'd be better of getting a Gmail account.
 
that is so frustrating. it works fine through entourage, and it is a premium account (qwest w/ msn is the only dsl available to me).
How do you ditch an email address? Should I just save what I might need and then do it like a band-aid, never look back?
I've got gmail, so thanks for the invite offers.
I just hate to let go of my addy... I don't get anything but junk and automated mailing list stuff to it anyway.
 
What I did when I switched was I used my Gmail more often and if people emailed my old account, I would reply using Hotmail's feature to change the sent address (making it my new one) and then telling the person that it's it was my new email. I still check my hotmail account, but only every week or two.
 
M@lew said:
What I did when I switched was I used my Gmail more often and if people emailed my old account, I would reply using Hotmail's feature to change the sent address (making it my new one) and then telling the person that it's it was my new email. I still check my hotmail account, but only every week or two.
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This is sort of funny...so you pay Microsoft $20/year, and they only give you pop, not imap, and it dosen't even work with all programs?!? Meanwhile Gmail gives IMAP for free?!?

This is why I'm going to switch to a gmail account, except I can't think of a good address for it. My Hotmail accounts were grandfathered in to work in Entourage and Outlook for free, but still.
 
Bern said:
Get a Gmail account instead which does work with Mail. If you need an invite I have heaps so let me know.
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I second, third, fourth, and fifth that.

I switched from my hotmail address I made back when I was 13 (PC user at the time) for a GMail account. It's linked to Mail and I have a little app called MailCountX that sits in my menubar like so:

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I wonder how I ever lived with web-based email (except for when I'm away from my computer, of course). GMail has a pretty sweet web interface too, a lot less invasive than hotmail in my humble opinion.

Mail is 100% worth the switch to GMail, if you can pull it off.

Edit: You can PAY for hotmail Mail (pop) access, I think... unless they got rid of that.
Edit2: Darn you wolfpup :)
 
about halfway through the installation of that plugin i had an epiphany. and that was. "If they don't want me to use their email however i want, why should i want to use their email" Its like kids in high school that want to be friends with the popular kids, and the popular kids won't have anything to do with them.

SO Fkuc you MSFT!
I'll stick with people that want me around.
I'll ditch my msn addys. Viva la GMail

Now does anyone have any suggestions on saving my hundreds of itunes receipts that i have saved in my msn account? I'd like to keep them because i have mild ocd and would hate to part with such a collection.
 
curiosa863 said:
about halfway through the installation of that plugin i had an epiphany. and that was. "If they don't want me to use their email however i want, why should i want to use their email" Its like kids in high school that want to be friends with the popular kids, and the popular kids won't have anything to do with them.

SO Fkuc you MSFT!
I'll stick with people that want me around.
I'll ditch my msn addys. Viva la GMail

Now does anyone have any suggestions on saving my hundreds of itunes receipts that i have saved in my msn account? I'd like to keep them because i have mild ocd and would hate to part with such a collection.
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Does your Hotmail account let you access it through any mail program at all? If so, you could probably just set up both your Hotmail account, and the Gmail account, and move those over. Otherwise you could always resort to manually forwarding them, or just saving them to your computer.

You shouldn't really need the receipts though, right?
 
The one thing that bugs me about Gmail's POP though is the fact it'll only forward to one computer. So if I want to forward my mail to my Macbook and desktop then I can only forward it to one and not the other.
 
M@lew said:
The one thing that bugs me about Gmail's POP though is the fact it'll only forward to one computer. So if I want to forward my mail to my Macbook and desktop then I can only forward it to one and not the other.
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Yeah, that is annoying. I found a way around that by creating a second gmail account and having gmail send a copy of every mail it receives to that new account so that both gmail accounts receive the same mail. Then, connect one mac to each gmail account via POP and hence both macs get all the gmail. Rather convoluted, but it worked
 
M@lew said:
How would you go about replying though if they're different emails?
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Actually, I managed to somehow get the outgoing mail address to be the same on both machines

Edit: Here's how

Suppose your account is called main@gmail.com and you create a second accound called main2@gmail.com and you tell gmail to send a copy of all incoming mail from main to main2.

Now on mac 1 mail.app
add account
Account Type POP
Name: Gmail
email address: main@gmail.com
incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com
username: main
outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com
username: main

And on mac 2 mail.app
add account
Account Type POP
Name: Gmail
email address: main@gmail.com
incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com
username: main2
outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com
username: main

All outgoing mail from either computer will be from main@gmail.com
 
Ah ok. Thanks a lot. =] Just one thing though, when you reply, the "quoted" email will be from main2 right? Not a very big thing but just putting it out there. :)
 
M@lew said:
Ah ok. Thanks a lot. =] Just one thing though, when you reply, the "quoted" email will be from main2 right? Not a very big thing but just putting it out there. :)
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You mean, if you include the original message as part of the reply? When I reply it usually just says "my name wrote:" it doesn't display the email address that wrote it
 
M@lew said:
The one thing that bugs me about Gmail's POP though is the fact it'll only forward to one computer. So if I want to forward my mail to my Macbook and desktop then I can only forward it to one and not the other.
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I thought Gmail supported IMAP?

If so, use that rather than POP. POP is SUPPOSED to pull mail off the server, so is really only usable with one computer. IMAP is more advanced and more useful generally.
 
Hi, I am new to mac and love it, but do i understand correctly that all my email accounts, including business ones, cannot be added to the email program on my mac computer? Also, what is gmail? and is there anyway to pull all my msn email into something else automatically?
Thank you for any and all help
 
roghawaii said:
Hi, I am new to mac and love it, but do i understand correctly that all my email accounts, including business ones, cannot be added to the email program on my mac computer? Also, what is gmail? and is there anyway to pull all my msn email into something else automatically?
Thank you for any and all help
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If your mail account supports either IMAP or POP then you can use the mail application on your mac.
 
swiftaw said:
If your mail account supports either IMAP or POP then you can use the mail application on your mac.
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What specifically are you trying to use? Anything should be usable on a Mac, unless something configured wrong somewhere.
 
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