Thanks Chris and Eugene. I set up the "spare" account again and left the server as "Localhost". Sent messages seemed to go OK, but attempting to receive resulted in the following: "Sending of username did not succeed. Mail server localhost responded: undefined is a unsupported domain".
I checked account Settings and found the User name was not the full email address, so I edited that and tried to receive from my account in hotmail but got "The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving a message. Mail server localhost responded: negative vibes from [email protected]". nb there is a page when you enter Account settings asking for account settings that is mostly blank for my spare account. I have left it that way Actually, Chris, I was doing what you were doing and using the Hotmail free POP service (although I didn't know that). I have dodged the lack of access to Junk mail by making sure there is none classed as such in Hotmail. I set up 5 filters, one for each vowel, so that a message containing a vowel in the sender address was sent to Hotmail Inbox. That meant everything gets through to Tbird inbox. I am using the tbird adaptive junk filter to filter the proper junk. The problem will arise if/when i go onto an external PC and want to access my emails - Hotmail will be a mess so it would be nice to get the above to work. Sandy On Jan 12, 2:11 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > This answers a lot of questions. You aren't using the webmail > extensions, but Hotmail's own free POP service. There is no problem with > using this in most cases, it is what I do myself, although I did use the > webmail extension for some time before Hotmail made free POP access > available. If downloading mails from folders other than inbox, in > particular the "Junk" folder, is essential to your use of Hotmail, then > you will need to change the account settings. If, like me, you are happy > to just download from the Hotmail inbox and check from time to time that > nothing is in the "Junk" folder on the website that shouldn't be then > carry on using pop3.live.com. > "Localhost" is the correct server name if you are using the webmail > extension. Simply put, the extension reads your mail on the Hotmail site > and converts it into regular POP email format. It then puts the mails on > a virtual server running on your computer, "Localhost". Thunderbird then > downloads from Localhost just as though it was a normal Internet server > > On 12/01/2011 12:46, Sandy wrote: > > > > > Yet again, thanks for the trouble taken to resolve my problems. > > > My server settings are POP3.Live.com for the 3 Hotmail accounts (and > > POP3.btinternet.com for the Yahoo/BT account). From what you say that > > is wrong. > > > Eugene emailed me directly to indicate there are at least 3 types of > > hotmail account and I should have used "Add other account" available > > from the bottom left tab of the Account settings box. I had used > > "Create a new account" to set up. I have been playing with that > > method exploiting an empty Hotmail account and ran into an issue that > > when I checked Account settings it then said "local host" in server > > name. I edited that to POP3 as above - but don't seem to be receiving > > emails in that account. Looks as if I have taken (almost) every wrong > > turning possible! > > > If I have to start again on Tbird, the troublesome trial of Outlook > > available for a week more which makes imports easier. > > > Sandy > > --
