trouville
N/A
A warning from my email account about \"hotmail accounts\"
I use hotmail now livemail as its much faster to collect than yahoo now ive read this on my other email account at fastmail
"microsoft closing external Hotmail access by end of June 2008
Summary: Microsoft are disabling WebDAV access to all hotmail.com accounts. This means Hotmail Pop Links, Outlook Express and Windows Mail (the email software included in Vista) access to hotmail.com accounts will stop working at the end of June 2008. You should download all your Hotmail email ASAP and tell people to stop using your @hotmail.com email address as soon as possible.
For many years, Microsoft has provided external access to hotmail.com accounts via a protocol called WebDAV. This is the protocol FastMail uses on the Options -> Pop Links screen to allow downloading of email from hotmail.com accounts. It’s also the same protocol that Outlook Express uses to access hotmail.com accounts.
In 2004, Microsoft said they would be disabling or charging for WebDAV access to hotmail.com accounts. It seems that what happened at the time is tha
This was all i could copy the note was far longer and detailed,if you like me have your emails from hear or other places stored with MS then you should see whats happening and perhaps set up a different email account?
I have been useing mailshack to collect email from hear but ive lost my password and cant use the account!Pity they provided a very fast service
I THINK IVE COPIED IT ALL NOW?:
Microsoft closing external Hotmail access by end of June 2008
Summary: Microsoft are disabling WebDAV access to all hotmail.com accounts. This means Hotmail Pop Links, Outlook Express and Windows Mail (the email software included in Vista) access to hotmail.com accounts will stop working at the end of June 2008. You should download all your Hotmail email ASAP and tell people to stop using your @hotmail.com email address as soon as possible.
For many years, Microsoft has provided external access to hotmail.com accounts via a protocol called WebDAV. This is the protocol FastMail uses on the Options -> Pop Links screen to allow downloading of email from hotmail.com accounts. It’s also the same protocol that Outlook Express uses to access hotmail.com accounts.
In 2004, Microsoft said they would be disabling or charging for WebDAV access to hotmail.com accounts. It seems that what happened at the time is that they disabled WebDAV access for newly signed up free accounts, but left it for existing accounts.
Since then, Microsoft have changed to using a new protocol. Rather than offering an open and standard protocol such as POP or IMAP, they’re using a new one they call DeltaSync for their live.com and new hotmail.com accounts. This protocol is not an open or standardised protocol. It’s a Microsoft proprietary one and only works with their Windows Live Mail, Vista Mail and Outlook Office Outlook Connector (update: in Vista, the software is actually called Windows Mail not Vista Mail, and it doesn’t work with the new protocol).
There’s been no documentation anywhere on how the protocol works. We spent some time trying to reverse engineer the protocol, but got stuck at the proprietary compression system they’re using. Others have also tried to help, but I don’t yet know of anyone that has successfully reverse engineered it.
Microsoft have now announced that they will be disabling WebDAV access to all hotmail.com accounts from the end of June. This means that apart from the web interface and the above 3 2 programs, there will be no way to access your email in hotmail.com accounts.
Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)
* Next stage of the spam war
* E-Mail
* Email protocols
* TCP port number
This entry was posted on April 22, 2008 at 3:03 am and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0
I use hotmail now livemail as its much faster to collect than yahoo now ive read this on my other email account at fastmail
"microsoft closing external Hotmail access by end of June 2008
Summary: Microsoft are disabling WebDAV access to all hotmail.com accounts. This means Hotmail Pop Links, Outlook Express and Windows Mail (the email software included in Vista) access to hotmail.com accounts will stop working at the end of June 2008. You should download all your Hotmail email ASAP and tell people to stop using your @hotmail.com email address as soon as possible.
For many years, Microsoft has provided external access to hotmail.com accounts via a protocol called WebDAV. This is the protocol FastMail uses on the Options -> Pop Links screen to allow downloading of email from hotmail.com accounts. It’s also the same protocol that Outlook Express uses to access hotmail.com accounts.
In 2004, Microsoft said they would be disabling or charging for WebDAV access to hotmail.com accounts. It seems that what happened at the time is tha
This was all i could copy the note was far longer and detailed,if you like me have your emails from hear or other places stored with MS then you should see whats happening and perhaps set up a different email account?
I have been useing mailshack to collect email from hear but ive lost my password and cant use the account!Pity they provided a very fast service
I THINK IVE COPIED IT ALL NOW?:
Microsoft closing external Hotmail access by end of June 2008
Summary: Microsoft are disabling WebDAV access to all hotmail.com accounts. This means Hotmail Pop Links, Outlook Express and Windows Mail (the email software included in Vista) access to hotmail.com accounts will stop working at the end of June 2008. You should download all your Hotmail email ASAP and tell people to stop using your @hotmail.com email address as soon as possible.
For many years, Microsoft has provided external access to hotmail.com accounts via a protocol called WebDAV. This is the protocol FastMail uses on the Options -> Pop Links screen to allow downloading of email from hotmail.com accounts. It’s also the same protocol that Outlook Express uses to access hotmail.com accounts.
In 2004, Microsoft said they would be disabling or charging for WebDAV access to hotmail.com accounts. It seems that what happened at the time is that they disabled WebDAV access for newly signed up free accounts, but left it for existing accounts.
Since then, Microsoft have changed to using a new protocol. Rather than offering an open and standard protocol such as POP or IMAP, they’re using a new one they call DeltaSync for their live.com and new hotmail.com accounts. This protocol is not an open or standardised protocol. It’s a Microsoft proprietary one and only works with their Windows Live Mail, Vista Mail and Outlook Office Outlook Connector (update: in Vista, the software is actually called Windows Mail not Vista Mail, and it doesn’t work with the new protocol).
There’s been no documentation anywhere on how the protocol works. We spent some time trying to reverse engineer the protocol, but got stuck at the proprietary compression system they’re using. Others have also tried to help, but I don’t yet know of anyone that has successfully reverse engineered it.
Microsoft have now announced that they will be disabling WebDAV access to all hotmail.com accounts from the end of June. This means that apart from the web interface and the above 3 2 programs, there will be no way to access your email in hotmail.com accounts.
Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)
* Next stage of the spam war
* Email protocols
* TCP port number
This entry was posted on April 22, 2008 at 3:03 am and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0
