mailwasher to outlook

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Stewart

I have mailwasher pro as my spam checker and am satisfied with it; it
collates my emails and from there I can access outlook.
I also set it up to check my hotmail account and while it can do that I get
annoyed at having to go separately to hotmail in order to process these
emails or reply to them etc.; as a result I discontinued the hotmail account
in mailwasher.
Does anyone know if it is possible to set up mailwasher to collect my emails
for outlook and hotmail and then send them on to outlook?
Thank you
 
No, because Mailwasher mearly checks your accounts, in a web mail like
structure, and deletes them there, on your ISP email account. The balance of
your mail is then gathered in Outlook direct from the various accounts, not
from Mailwasher.
To use Hotmail in Outlook requires a paid for Hotmail account (Premium
account)
 
Stewart said:
I have mailwasher pro as my spam checker and am satisfied with it; it
collates my emails and from there I can access outlook.
I also set it up to check my hotmail account and while it can do that I get
annoyed at having to go separately to hotmail in order to process these
emails or reply to them etc.; as a result I discontinued the hotmail account
in mailwasher.
Does anyone know if it is possible to set up mailwasher to collect my emails
for outlook and hotmail and then send them on to outlook?
Thank you
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Mailwasher neither supports WebDAV (the old script language with the
pre-coded command set to connect to Microsoft's HTTP mail hosts) or the
new DeltaSync (to replace WebDAV). WebDAV was how your e-mail client
used to connect to Hotmail. It gets disabled in June 2008 to get
replaced with DeltaSync. POP3 access to Hotmail disappeared back in
2000 for MSN accounts and back in 2002 for Hotmail accounts (legacy
accounts continued to have POP3 access) and then reappeared in November
2007 but *only* if you have a Hotmail Plus (paid) account. You did not
mention if you have a free or paid Hotmail account.

Firetrust's own FAQ mentions how to get connected to Hotmail:
http://www.firetrust.com/en/support/mailwasher-pro/faq/error-messages#hotmail

Although you can use the Outlook Connector plug-in in Outlook 2003/2007,
Microsoft's Windows Live Mail client, or Thunderbird with the Webmail
plug-in to connect to freebie Hotmail accounts (because they understand
DeltaSync), Mailwasher runs as a separate e-mail program.

You can try using FreePOPs. It isn't easy to setup but not super hard
and they have a forum to help out. Retrieving emails will be very slow.
As it name says, it is a POP proxy. That means you can retrieve
e-mails. It is not an SMTP proxy so you cannot send e-mails. You'll
have to use your ISP's SMTP server for that. Expect flaky operation
trying to use FreePOPs. Start visiting their forum.
 
Thank you both; it looks as if I am just as well sticking with what I have
at present.
I have the free hotmail account with a good email address, I would not want
to change it as I use it for all "public" emails.
Earlier this year I changed my isp server to the post office, mainly because
of the amount of spam that I was getting. I have restricted my post office
(or outlook) email address to personal friends only and so far that has cut
the amount of spam enormously, virtually from over to 200 a day to nill.

VanguardLH said:
Stewart wrote:
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I am not so unrealistic as to expect no spam but expect that mailwasher will
pick it up. My mistake 10 years ago when I first started was to select an
email address that read like (e-mail address removed).
The use of the prefix the and giving it out to all and sundry led to the
proliferation of spam emails.
Hopefully I have selected a less obvious one this time.
Thanks again.
 
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