Panther+Hotmail?

[jelwell]

Originally posted by joshuwa72
wouldnt you be able to just open outlook on a pc, copy the information it uses for hotmail, and then enter that in mail.app?

No. Outlook & Outlook Express work with hotmail because surprise, they're both Microsoft applications and Hotmail is a microsoft email service. You have to pay to check hotmail mail with a client other than Outlook/Outlook Express. Microsoft does this to lock you into their client. Yahoo does something similar, but they don't have an email cilent, that I know of, so I suppose they do it simply to generate revenue.

What has been presented in this discussion is http_mail, which is a hack to allow mail.app to use hotmail, even though you're not paying for the extra service.

joe.

 

[kenbaby]

'httpmail' account type appeared but...

At the second time, finally 'httpmail' appeared in the account type pull-down manu.

How should I set the "outgoing mail server?"

They don't mention anything about it in the "read me" file. I tried to set it as "smtp.verizon.net" since I'm using Verizon DSA service but it seems to change to 'None' every time I close the preference window.

BTW, I have some messages in the mailbox of Hotmail but they don't seem to be downloaded. Even the new emails. What's going on?

Of course I have checked the setting and all many times to make sure I didn't make any mistakes in the process except for SMTP server part.

 

[Thirteenva]

Just set the outgoing mail server to be

hotmail.com and with username and password authentication.

 

[abhishekit]

Re: 'httpmail' account type appeared but...

Originally posted by kenbaby
At the second time, finally 'httpmail' appeared in the account type pull-down manu.

How should I set the "outgoing mail server?"

They don't mention anything about it in the "read me" file. I tried to set it as "smtp.verizon.net" since I'm using Verizon DSA service but it seems to change to 'None' every time I close the preference window.

BTW, I have some messages in the mailbox of Hotmail but they don't seem to be downloaded. Even the new emails. What's going on?

Of course I have checked the setting and all many times to make sure I didn't make any mistakes in the process except for SMTP server part.

i am having the same experience.. even after setting the outgoing server as hotmail.com with my username and password, when i save it and recheck it it shows none. and when i try to send a mail using that server, it fails...
any help??