Michael said:
Regarding Yahoo's free email, short and sweet, while it
used to offer pop downloads, they don't offer that
facility now.
Regarding MSN, POP downloads are available, but this will
depend on your client you are using. This facility is
available in Outlook Express 5, 5.5 and 6. It is not
available in MSOutlook 2000, for some mystery reason, but
it is definitely available in Outlook 2002.
The only problem is because Hotmail is an HTML server as
opposed to a POP server, you will not be able to
configure folders in your browser, but will have to do
that on the net. The other nuissance is that if you have
set your browser to save copies of your emails in
your "sent" folder, then you have to manually delete
these on Hotmail itself, as deleting in the browser does
not always work. One of the symptoms that this folder is
full is when you suddenly stop receiving new email. First
presumption is that the "sent mesages" folder is the
offending folder that needs to be cleared out.
HTH.
Michael
Yahoo's *free* webmail service no longer provides POP3 server access.
They still provide POP3 server access if you want to pay for it. I
don't know if the paid-for service includes an SMTP server for outbound
e-mails or if you are expected to use your ISP's SMTP server. Outlook
[Express] doesn't support HTTP e-mail accounts for Yahoo but I can still
get my Yahoo e-mails in Outlook [Express] by using the YahooPOPs
protocol converter proxy (HTTP-to-POP3). I define a POP3 e-mail account
in Outlook [Express] and my POP3 e-mail client connects to the POP3 side
of the proxy while the HTTP side of the proxy connects to Yahoo's
webmail service. I get POP3 access to Yahoo without having to pay Yahoo
for their POP3 service.
Hotmail no longer provides POP3 and SMTP servers for you to access.
They are all HTTP now (i.e., you normally use a web browser, or an
e-mail client that can perform the HTTP connection). The e-mail
accounts that you can define in Outlook 2002 and Outlook Express are
HTTP e-mail accounts, not POP3 accounts. HTTP e-mail accounts each get
their own information store (i.e., .pst file) whereas all POP3 e-mail
accounts are aggregated into a single information store. That's why you
see separate folders for you Hotmail account versus the other tree used
for all your POP3 accounts. If you don't want separate information
stores, you can do similar to what I described above for Yahoo. Define
a POP3 e-mail accounts for Hotmail and use the Hotmail Popper proxy for
the HTTP connect to Hotmail.
YahooPOPs and Hotmail Popper are both freeware. I've used YahooPOPs. I
haven't use Hotmail Popper (because I don't use heavily spammed Hotmail
accounts and only keep an account there to keep my Passport account
alive, and for e-mail testing).
