Hotmail

[redbook]

Well thanks to every body for all your help - got a system working like a dream now, don't know why I ever bothered with WIDOWS. Just one more thing does anybody out there know of a free application to access hotmail on Thunderbird?

[Vergil83]

You might take a look at http://www.freepops.org/en/

[gogalthorp]

May be time to make the break total. There is always Google Mail.

I suspect that Hotmail uses activeX this simply won't work in Linux. See how the MS lockin works?

[bigtomrodney]

Nah Hotmail works under Linux. I occasionally reactivate mine to communicate with my friends who use messenger.

[devils casper]

Hotmail free account doesn't support any Email Client including Outlook Express. i will try freepops tomorrow. let see if it supports hotmail free account too. 'll post back soon.

[redbook]

I do not use the free account it is the one at about £15 per year can't remember which that is but allows http: access in express and outlook.

[antidrugue]

Nah Hotmail works under Linux. I occasionally reactivate mine to communicate with my friends who use messenger.

Just as a side note, do you know you can use any email addresses to communication with the MSN messenger protocol? Simply activate your email address as a MS passport account, and then it will work in MSN (as well as in Hotmail). For example, I use my Gmail account to communicate with friends through MSN. More here:
http://www.passport.net

And yes, Hotmail as always worked in Linux for me too.

[redbook]

Thanks for that, but my problem is I want to be able to get my hotmail e-mails on my suse system without using webmail.

[antidrugue]

Thanks for that, but my problem is I want to be able to get my hotmail e-mails on my suse system without using webmail.

With a paid Hotmail account, don't they give access to POP and SMTP servers?

[bigtomrodney]

Just as a side note, do you know you can use any email addresses to communication with the MSN messenger protocol? ....

Ah yeah cheers for that. Unfortunately though it's a bit of stubborness I'm dealing with on the other end and it would be as easy to get some of these guys to switch to google-talk as it would to get them onto a new account.

Unfortunately that switch is only half complete.