Hotmail’s free Outlook Express support to be history soon
September 27th, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 84 times, 1 so far today
No more access to hotmail from MS Mail Clients
In the playboy interview, Google guys pledged that they won’t hijack people’s mail to keep them stuck with GMail. In other words, proper exporting tools would be available if some user want to move on to another mailing service. They also reportedly are still deciding on whether to provide any kind of free imap or pop support (very unlikely for free users). On the other hand, Microsoft seems to be shunting out all the free stuff the users had with time on the name of spammers. First, the free chatroom were blocked from non-paying customers. And now the latest news is in that Microsoft is blocking accessing Outlook Express and MS Outlook users from accessing hotmail.
CNet reports:
Starting Monday, MSN will grant use of Web DAV tools only to paid subscribers of Hotmail, which starts at $19.95. However, Hotmail subscribers who have previously used the technology, an estimated 5 percent to 10 percent of its total 187 million customers, will be able to continue to use it for free through March or April of 2005.
Yahoo! had already taken back free pop support from Yahoo! Mail long time back and this comes as another shock to the users. Let us hope using hotmail and msn messenger stays free for some time to come.
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February 12th, 2005 at 8:51 pm
I tried to sync my yahoo e-mail account through Outlook Express today, and got the following error (which was nice)
April 17th, 2005 at 2:31 am
I wish these morons would just make a free email free, which should include being able to use it with a separtate email client. Microsoft in my opinion is acting stupidly, since the Outlook email programs are manufactured by Microsoft, thus making their programs first choice for Hotmail users.
June 4th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
I use Outlook Express for my Hotmail account. When I open outlook Express i get a message “gateway took too long to respond” any idea’s as to why this is happening? I have Hotmail Plus so it isn’t a free account. I’m stumped.
May 16th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
The connection to the server has failed. Account: ‘mail.comcast.net’, Server: ’smtp.comcast.net’, Protocol: SMTP, Port: 587, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0×800CCC0E
I can rec’d to my Outlook but cannot send. The output server info is correct — any ideas?
Thanks