Bye bye Hotmail;
You came in handy now and then when virgin/ntl was playing up.

RIP,

S

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:26:31 +0100, spamlet wrote:

> Bye bye Hotmail;
> You came in handy now and then when virgin/ntl was playing up.
>
> RIP,

Hotmail is going somewhere? Or are you just venting.

--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.

get a life

spamlet wrote:
> Bye bye Hotmail;
> You came in handy now and then when virgin/ntl was playing up.
>
> RIP,
>
> S

"N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in message
news:1aop2lbm2e9r4$.dlg@msnews.aosake.net...
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:26:31 +0100, spamlet wrote:
>
>> Bye bye Hotmail;
>> You came in handy now and then when virgin/ntl was playing up.
>>
>> RIP,
>
> Hotmail is going somewhere? Or are you just venting.
>
> --
> Norman
> ~Shine, bright morning light,
> ~now in the air the spring is coming.
> ~Sweet, blowing wind,
> ~singing down the hills and valleys.

Well as it happens my OE hotmail folders stopped synchronising this
afternoon, so I thought MS had finally turned off Pop3 for ordinary
'non-plus' accounts. But I now find they have started working again!

Don't know what happened there. Life in the old dog yet!

Appols for any confusion.

S

spamlet wrote:
<snip>
> Well as it happens my OE hotmail folders stopped synchronising this
> afternoon, so I thought MS had finally turned off Pop3 for ordinary
> 'non-plus' accounts. But I now find they have started working again!

First of all, you're probably not accessing the Hotmail account via POP3 if
you're not a Hotmail Plus or MSN Premium subscriber.

Second, if you're accessing the free account via WebDAV (AKA HTML), you'll
have access to it in OE as you have it configured now until at least January
2009.
--
~PA Bear

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:41:02 +0100, spamlet wrote:

> "N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in message
> news:1aop2lbm2e9r4$.dlg@msnews.aosake.net...

>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:26:31 +0100, spamlet wrote:

>>> Bye bye Hotmail;
>>> You came in handy now and then when virgin/ntl was playing up.

>>> RIP,

>> Hotmail is going somewhere? Or are you just venting.

>> --
>> Norman
>> ~Shine, bright morning light,
>> ~now in the air the spring is coming.
>> ~Sweet, blowing wind,
>> ~singing down the hills and valleys.

Ducky, just ducky; an MSOE user who doesn't know about "OE-Quotefix".
Because MS Outlook Express is "brokenware", as a newsreader, it is
recommended to install "OE-Quotefix" to repair MSOE's nasty bad habit of
failing to properly trim properly delimited signatures. Or, if you don't
want to do that, trim them manually. Please.

> Well as it happens my OE hotmail folders stopped synchronising this
> afternoon, so I thought MS had finally turned off Pop3 for ordinary
> 'non-plus' accounts. But I now find they have started working again!

Windows Live (formerly MSN) Hotmail only provides POP3 access to really old
(before 1999) legacy 'hotmail.com' accounts, and maybe a few rare others.

> Don't know what happened there. Life in the old dog yet!
>
> Appols for any confusion.

Windows Live Hotmail is, primarily, a web mail service, and it is unlikely
to be going away any time before Microsoft, itself, does.

--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.

"N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in message
news:1lesuiq8fvdye.dlg@msnews.aosake.net...
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:41:02 +0100, spamlet wrote:
>
>> "N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in message
>> news:1aop2lbm2e9r4$.dlg@msnews.aosake.net...
>
>>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:26:31 +0100, spamlet wrote:
>
>>>> Bye bye Hotmail;
>>>> You came in handy now and then when virgin/ntl was playing up.
>
>>>> RIP,
>
>>> Hotmail is going somewhere? Or are you just venting.
>
>>> --
>>> Norman
>>> ~Shine, bright morning light,
>>> ~now in the air the spring is coming.
>>> ~Sweet, blowing wind,
>>> ~singing down the hills and valleys.
>
> Ducky, just ducky; an MSOE user who doesn't know about "OE-Quotefix".
> Because MS Outlook Express is "brokenware", as a newsreader, it is
> recommended to install "OE-Quotefix" to repair MSOE's nasty bad habit of
> failing to properly trim properly delimited signatures. Or, if you don't
> want to do that, trim them manually. Please.
>
>> Well as it happens my OE hotmail folders stopped synchronising this
>> afternoon, so I thought MS had finally turned off Pop3 for ordinary
>> 'non-plus' accounts. But I now find they have started working again!
>
> Windows Live (formerly MSN) Hotmail only provides POP3 access to really
> old
> (before 1999) legacy 'hotmail.com' accounts, and maybe a few rare others.
>
>> Don't know what happened there. Life in the old dog yet!
>>
>> Appols for any confusion.
>
> Windows Live Hotmail is, primarily, a web mail service, and it is unlikely
> to be going away any time before Microsoft, itself, does.
>

Never got further than reformatting the odd raggedy eml with Quotefix, and
latterly found most of what needed fixing could just be dealt with by
notepad; and have never seen the point of signatures in the first place.

1999 was not long ago to many of us I am afraid.

Thanks for the tips.

S