[Klug-general] Hotwayd (was web editing woes)

[aleX Layfield]

Hotmail did a thing where only the older addresses could continue to use
Outlook/Express to login and download for free, I think the address had to
be two or so yrs old. The newer addresses have to be paid for...

aleX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham" <gct3 at f2s.com>
To: "Kent Linux User Group - General Topics" <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Hotwayd (was web editing woes)


> On Friday 22 July 2005 11:46, Karl Lattimer wrote:
>
> > > Actually I used to use hotwayd along with fetchmail
> > > http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net/news.php haven't used it recently
> > > though as I've long since killed my hotmail account.
> >
> > Wow!, someone wrote it! That was quick, should i now pursue them
> > through the courts at swift pace to retrieve the intellectual
> > property that is mine.
>
> Hotwayd is really good IF you've got an old hotmail.com account.  I use
> hotmail when I want to give out an address that Windows users I'm not
> too sure about can contact me (web sites etc).  Hotwayd works well to
> download my hotmail.com stuff.
>
> However, my Windows using girlfriend has set up both a hotmail.com and a
> hotmail.co.uk account and she cannot use Hotwayd to download her mail.
>
> I can download stuff in both KMail and Sylpheed; she can download
> nothing from hotmail in either.  When we tried her settings in
> Thunderbird, a message flagged up that she has to pay to be able to
> download hotmail messages into an MUA.
>
> Incidentally, I have been using Hotwayd for at least three years, so its
> not new.
>
> Interestingly, we CAN get Gotmail to connect with my girlfriend's
> hotmail account but (again) can't download anything...
> -- 
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> Graham
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