The single GZIP/deflate issue was, as far as I can tell, only ever the subject of the failure to retrieve the source of the messages and hence the RETR errors reported in this forum.
This issue has been the reason that prevented the Webmail add-on being able to obtain the message source of the messages in the Hotmail Webmail database (and therefore the RETR errors reported). The failures that result in "negative vibes" have, over the years, tended to be those that are related to the failure of the add-on to be able to log in to the Webmail service. The Webmail Author may wish to state with authority that I am incorrect on this - and I will be happy to bow to that decision but it does appear that this problem exists for only that subset of Hotmail users who are unable to "view message source" successfully within the Hotmail Web interface. The GZIP/deflate option mentioned appears to offer relief to that group of Hotmail users. On Aug 31, 11:42 pm, woest85 <[email protected]> wrote: > No, the deflate has never been an issue. The GZIP option on the other > hand was, and that DID cause "negative vibes". > > On Sep 1, 7:08 am, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The deflate issue does not manifest itself as "negative vibes" so it > > is another issue causing that response for you. > > > There other reasons for that response - generally due to incorrect > > settings for the account with these add-ons. > > > Please make sure that in Thunderbird your security settings for the > > Hotmail and Yahoo accounts are set to "none". You cannot use secure > > settings with these add-ons and indeed they have no meaning or > > value. > > > On Aug 31, 5:20 pm, kammah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > OK, found else where in the forum that indeed that network.http.accept- > > > encoding should be changed. > > > So I've set it to "deflate". > > > > Result just as I expected for both Yahoo and Hotmail: "Negative Vibes".
