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Paul K

05-11-2006 19:53

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Nope it stopped for a lot of people a loooong time ago, some accounts still have the ability though, I still had POP access up till a recent clean install which scrubbed my Windows folder.

v0id	05-11-2006 19:57

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 34151402)

Yep if you have been using OE since POP access was started with Hotmail then you still have it, if you change your hotmail account or wipe your drive and re-install you will lose access to POP as a file is lost from your HD. At some point though they may stop free access alltogether, I know I lost POP access when I had to clean install Windows a while back.

I've clean installed, shall we say "just a few times" and I still have it :/

Edit: actually it's not POP, more like IMAP

homealone

05-11-2006 20:03

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 34151460)

Nope it stopped for a lot of people a loooong time ago, some accounts still have the ability though, I still had POP access up till a recent clean install which scrubbed my Windows folder.

I still have POP access on my .com account, but when I set up an .uk one after they removed POP access for new accounts, it didn't have it, on that new one.

Hopefully having the main addy in my Outlook Express 'send/receive list shows me logging in regularly, as I very rarely use it for sending messages and have never had it discontinued.

Paul K

05-11-2006 20:20

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Yep you'll probably keep the .com access for a while, no doubt they will cut that eventually too at some point though. As long as you access it one way or the other it should stay live, logging in via POP is probably just as good as logging in via messenger or web interface.

homealone

05-11-2006 20:27

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 34151477)

you are prolly right about them withdrawing it, at some point, I'll have to re-assess my options, then - thanks for your thoughts on the login :)

Maggy

05-11-2006 22:45

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Hallo.I haven't touched my hotmail account for months..however I decided to resurrect MSN messenger yesterday and after a little faffing about I got back in using my hotmail account.However they did ask for another email addy to be added to my profile.I wonder how they feel about Gmail? ;)

kronas

05-11-2006 23:27

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

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Originally Posted by Incognitas (Post 34151530)

maybe they will direct some 'newsletters' to your hotmail, or mailyu about upgrading to the pay service :)

Maggy

06-11-2006 00:56

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

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Originally Posted by kronas (Post 34151536)

maybe they will direct some 'newsletters' to your hotmail, or mailyu about upgrading to the pay service :)

Pfft! Why pay when I can get an addy for free?:)

kronas

06-11-2006 22:57

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

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Originally Posted by Incognitas (Post 34151555)

Pfft! Why pay when I can get an addy for free?:)

extra storage ;)

MS said existing accounts will retain pop access, new accounts after a certain date do not have the feature.

but its MS ;)

Maggy

07-11-2006 01:17

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

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Originally Posted by kronas (Post 34152124)

extra storage ;)

MS said existing accounts will retain pop access, new accounts after a certain date do not have the feature.

but its MS ;)

Well I've more storage space than I need in an inbox with Gmail which is free and has an inbox size of 2781 MB of which I'm only using 39 MB currently.I also have a 1 GB free inbox with Yahoo.

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