Letter from Windows Live Mail team

[Guest lb]

Did not want to join the other post on this. I got a letter from the

above stating that if I was using Outlook Express to access my Windows

Live Hotmail account that it would no longer work later this year.

 

According to Qwest my ISP, I have a Windows Live Premium account as

part of my broadband package. If what I am reading is correct then,

because I have the premium account, I will not have to worry about

using OE to send and download my Hotmail.

 

Is that correct?

 

Thanks

[Guest Ingeborg]

Re: Letter from Windows Live Mail team

 

lb wrote:

> Did not want to join the other post on this. I got a letter from the

> above stating that if I was using Outlook Express to access my Windows

> Live Hotmail account that it would no longer work later this year.

>

> According to Qwest my ISP, I have a Windows Live Premium account as

> part of my broadband package. If what I am reading is correct then,

> because I have the premium account, I will not have to worry about

> using OE to send and download my Hotmail.

>

> Is that correct?

 

No. Microsoft is stopping to support the protocol OE uses to communicate

with the hotmail servers. So you can only use webmail, or you'll have to

migrate to another mailclient.

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Letter from Windows Live Mail team

 

No, that's incorrect from what we know at this point. Unless you're

currently accessing or able to access the MSN/Hotmail account in OE via

POP3, this change will affect you. See Qualifying Accounts and Exclusions

sections here:

http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F92775FC46A390CA!171.entry

 

The Windows Live Mail team is currently monitoring a few English-language

newsgroups in order to field questions about this change. These newsgroups

include microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,

microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general, and microsoft.public.internet.mail.

See http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5D6F5A79A79B6708!5378.entry

--

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net

DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

 

 

lb wrote:

> Did not want to join the other post on this. I got a letter from the

> above stating that if I was using Outlook Express to access my Windows

> Live Hotmail account that it would no longer work later this year.

>

> According to Qwest my ISP, I have a Windows Live Premium account as

> part of my broadband package. If what I am reading is correct then,

> because I have the premium account, I will not have to worry about

> using OE to send and download my Hotmail.

>

> Is that correct?

[Guest 98 Guy]

Re: Letter from Windows Live Mail team

 

Ingeborg wrote:

> Microsoft is stopping to support the protocol OE uses to

> communicate with the hotmail servers. So you can only use

> webmail, or you'll have to migrate to another mailclient.

 

Are you saying that OE can't use pop3 to access the hotmail servers?

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Letter from Windows Live Mail team

 

98 Guy wrote:

>> Microsoft is stopping to support the protocol OE uses to

>> communicate with the hotmail servers. So you can only use

>> webmail, or you'll have to migrate to another mailclient.

>

> Are you saying that OE can't use pop3 to access the hotmail servers?

 

Unless you're a Hotmail Plus subscriber and have configured the account for

POP3 access, no.

--

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net

DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

[Guest 98 Guy]

Re: Letter from Windows Live Mail team

 

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> > Are you saying that OE can't use pop3 to access the hotmail

> > servers?

>

> Unless you're a Hotmail Plus subscriber and have configured

> the account for POP3 access, no.

 

How will this affect the various ISP's that have contracted out their

e-mail hosting to hotmail?

 

I'm thinking of Sympatico, which has been actively migrating (forcing)

many of it's subscribers still using the Sympatico pop3 servers to

start using the MSN/Hotmail/Sympatico co-branded product.

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Letter from Windows Live Mail team

 

98 Guy wrote:

>>> Are you saying that OE can't use pop3 to access the hotmail

>>> servers?

>>

>> Unless you're a Hotmail Plus subscriber and have configured

>> the account for POP3 access, no.

>

> How will this affect the various ISP's that have contracted out their

> e-mail hosting to hotmail?

>

> I'm thinking of Sympatico, which has been actively migrating (forcing)

> many of it's subscribers still using the Sympatico pop3 servers to

> start using the MSN/Hotmail/Sympatico co-branded product.

 

AFAIK, such MSN Partner accounts can only be accessed via WebDAV (see

Exclusions section of

http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F92775FC46A390CA!171.entry);

hence such accounts will no longer be accessible in OE after 30 June 2008

unless (1) the account holder is a Hotmail Plus subscriber *and* (2) the

account is accessible via POP3. (Personally, I wouldn't wait until July 1st

to find out.)

 

Good luck getting anything helpful out of Bell Sympatico about this.

Chances are, they'll tell you to contact MSN/Hotmail (who will then probably

tell you to contact Bell Sympatico).

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~PA Bear