Couple of thoughts ... You are on a Mac system so you cannot use the default port numbers in the Webmail add-on. You will need to chose ports >1024 one for the POP side and a different one for the SMTP side. You will need to enter these ports in the main Webmail extension and in the Thunderbird account settings for POP and the SMTP entry for Hotmail.
Also in the Thunderbird account settings the account name must be in full including @hotmail,com. As Chris mentioned security setting must be "None". Pass word transmitted insecurely. This all happens inside your system between Thunderbird and the add-ons. When the add-on logs onto Hotmail on the Web the logon is done securely. The Hotmail add-on will almost certainly download again any mail you have sitting in the Hotmail Inbox. On May 13, 5:33 pm, Confo <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been living with the limits of POP to read my Hotmail on TB, > but I'd really like to try this method. > > Would it work if I installed the two addons, then changed the server > settings of the existing Hotmail account to match the webmail setup > (changing "pop3.live.com" to "localhost" and "smtp.live.com" to > "localhost"? > > I tried creating a new TB account from scratch with the same username/ > password and edited the server settings to "localhost", and nothing > happens. Also, I don't get the "Mode" tab in the component view, just > POP and SMTP. > > Mac OS X 10.4.11 > Mozilla/5.0 > Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 > Web-Mail-1.3.12, Hotmail-1.2.30
