Please check that you have the following settings for the Hotmail account: Your user name should be your full email address Server settings for the POP server should be; Server name: localhost Port number: 110 Connection security: None (localhost is a virtual server running on your computer a secure connection would be meaningless) Authentication method: Password transmitted insecurely
On Jan 18, 11:05 pm, SteveH_66 <[email protected]> wrote: > I am having trouble connecting to Hotmail with the Webmail extension. > It just times out after a minute or 2 of trying to make contact. I am > using the hotmail 1.2.30b7 extension and it shows "connect:host > contacted sending login information" in the status bar. The green > indicator just goes across the bar at the bottom for a couple of > minutes, then a message pops up saying Thunderbird at the top with the > Thuderbird logo on it and says "Connection to server local host timed > out". > > This is on a hotmail account I set up under an older version of > Thunderbird and an older version of Web Mail and the hotmail extension > for it. > > The same thing happens with a new account set up on another hotmail > account, a Web Mail account I set up this evening. I noticed a > difference between the 2, in account settings and the list of accounts > the old one shows up as Web Mail - [email protected] and the new > account I set up shows up as [email protected] on localhost, don't > know if this has any effect or not. > > Web Mail worked just fine on my Web Mail account I had set up for my > yahoo account, so I am thinking it is something wrong with the hotmail > extension, since the yahoo account works fine with the yahoo > extension. Any ideas what's wrong?
