Perhaps I should be a bit more clear. The latest set of Hotmail changes have posed more than one problem for the Webmail Author.
There was the frequently experienced problem of a failure to be able to log in to the Hotmail service. This has happened time and again with changes to Hotmail and usually only represents a small delay in service before a solution provided by the Webmail Author.. There was a second and much more severe problem with the inability of some Hotmail users to be able to access the "view message source" function of the Hotmail service that is vital to the Webmail Author's ability to access the message database and translate the message from html to POP for Thunderbird. It is this second problem for which the GZIP/deflate workaround allows those users affected to restore the ability of the Hotmail add-on to access the message source in Hotmail and restore the email download service. 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".
