[Merged] Microsoft cuts pop access to free hotmail

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by samuelnw53

According to the report in computeractive mag ,it is to stop spam in Hotmail.

No, to stop people setting up a hotmail account and then using the smtp capabilities to send spam out quickly, rather than the more manual process of sending it through the http link.
By charging, even micropayments, they have full address details of the account user so know where to go to find them when they spam.

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

No, to stop people setting up a hotmail account and then using the smtp capabilities to send spam out quickly, rather than the more manual process of sending it through the http link.
By charging, even micropayments, they have full address details of the account user so know where to go to find them when they spam.

So were not going to be charged for using it then.

Merged with the existing thread on this subject.

[Strzelecki]

Ok so if it's new accounts that are being stopped why is mine? I've had my hotmail account for over 4 years now so not really a 'new' user! It's just the hassle of having to transfer everything I signed up to etc. with my hotmail account over to another one of my email addresses. My outlook also checks my girlfriends hotmail and hers isn't blocked. I suppose I could just setup hotmail to forward to my private address and then still read it in outlook or whatever. Oh and I did do a search before I setup the other thread!
Oh seems GetMail is blocked so now fowarding to another address.

This is what Lycos did with their email service.Then POP access was reinstated for PAYING customers.

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by Strzelecki

Ok so if it's new accounts that are being stopped why is mine? I've had my hotmail account for over 4 years now so not really a 'new' user! It's just the hassle of having to transfer everything I signed up to etc. with my hotmail account over to another one of my email addresses. My outlook also checks my girlfriends hotmail and hers isn't blocked. I suppose I could just setup hotmail to forward to my private address and then still read it in outlook or whatever. Oh and I did do a search before I setup the other thread!
Oh seems GetMail is blocked so now fowarding to another address.

Join the club, I've been on hotmail for years and now I'm blocked. I know why though, I recently re-installed windows and that's cleared the original information so now hotmail thinks I've only just set up outlook express to access it Oh well, can still access it from the web interface I suppose.

Originally Posted by Paul

Join the club, I've been on hotmail for years and now I'm blocked. I know why though, I recently re-installed windows and that's cleared the original information so now hotmail thinks I've only just set up outlook express to access it Oh well, can still access it from the web interface I suppose.

The easiest way, for me, is via the MSN toolbar - anyone know when a firefox version will be out

presumably you have no forwarding, either, then?