Hotmail: use it or lose it - Page 2

Paul K · 05-11-2006, 19:53

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

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Originally Posted by Paul

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

05-11-2006, 20:03

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Originally Posted by Paul

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

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.

05-11-2006, 20:27

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Originally Posted by Paul

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.

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

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

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

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?

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

**Maggy** · 06-11-2006, 00:56

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Originally Posted by kronas

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

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

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

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Originally Posted by kronas

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.