You don't need an add-on in Thunderbird 2 or any other email client. The
settings shown in the link are for setting up POP access, the same basic
settings could be used in any email client, just the details of the
menus will change.
For many people, the basic POP access either isn't an option or will not
do all that they need. If you are using a work place computer to access
your Hotmail, a corporate firewall may prevent access to the Hotmail POP
and SMTP servers, if this applies to you, then you need the webmail
extensions. Other people may have filters and custom folders set up in
Hotmail and need to be able to download all their mails into
Thunderbird. Not just emails that happen to be in the Hotmail inbox,
which is all that the POP protocol allows to be downloaded. Again, if
this applies to you, you need the webmail extensions.
rf wrote:
I had the same problem. Solved by updating to THunderbird 3 where you
don't need the hotmail add-on. Set up hotmail using the info
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/hotmail_thunderbird_3_0_manual_account_setup
good luck
On Aug 2, 10:04 pm, Adendum <paulbbur...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Not been able to access my hotmail accounts via Thunderbird for a
week. The passwords were all being rejected but TB wouldn't allow me
to enter a new password. I can access all hotmail accounts via my
browser.
So today I tried finding updates to \Add Ons but TB reported none for
webmail or or webmail- hotmail. Therefore I just downloaded the
two .tar files from here dated Aug 1. These have been installed.
The password problem appears to have gone and it connects, sees the
messages (I see downloading xxx in the status bar) but then get this
error message "TheRETRcommand did not succeed. Error retrieving a
message. Mail server localhost responded: negative vibes from
xxxxx...@hotmail.com"
What next?
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