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15 May 2010, 06:19 PM | #1 |
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New (and improved??) Hotmail
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15 May 2010, 06:43 PM | #2 | |
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15 May 2010, 08:10 PM | #3 |
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They (i.e. Hotmail) might also try providing a fully secure email session (https).
Why are the two most popular email providers (Hotmail and Yahoo) the only ones not doing so ? |
15 May 2010, 08:45 PM | #4 | |
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Long-term EMDers may remember that one such sorry tale was how one of the main anti-Hotmail sites got started (hotmailsucks.com IIRC); it's also the reason why I've long ceased using Hotmail even as a spam-sink. |
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16 May 2010, 01:26 AM | #5 |
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Improved or not, it's highly doubtful that I'd ever return to Hotmail even if they offered to pay me for using it. Hope it works out well for those that choose to partake of it, though.
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16 May 2010, 08:54 PM | #6 |
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They can do what they want with the interface. It matters not to me as long as they allow POP3/SMTP. I have three accounts with them and only access them via SSL POP3, TLS SMTP. Rarely use the Web interface.
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18 May 2010, 10:29 PM | #7 | ||
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A little more info at CNET
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18 May 2010, 10:49 PM | #8 | |
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Mail was most often dropped when sent from my Fastmail account but the problem seems to have disappeared now that I am no longer using Fastmail. |
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18 May 2010, 11:40 PM | #9 | |
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18 May 2010, 11:51 PM | #10 |
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They have to be talking about using https for the entire session, giving you a choice of the way you wish to connect.
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19 May 2010, 01:18 AM | #11 |
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19 May 2010, 02:19 AM | #12 |
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I created a Hotmail account just to test sending stuff from our business to a "test customer." I repeatedly get "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Webpage" when I try to go to the Inbox.
Hotmail is nothing but pure garbage. |
19 May 2010, 07:45 AM | #13 |
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So it's not OK for Hotmail do do all these, but it's OK for Gmail? (whenever I check my Gmail account,there are several legitimate messages in the spam box, and several spam messages in the Inbox. I don't know if there are messages that have just disappeared into thin air but there were reports in these forums about emails that were sent to Gmail, accepted for delivery by Gmail as confirmed by sending logs and never delivered to the Gmail user's account, not even to the spam box. So I don't see that Gmail is much better than Hotmail in this respect).
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19 May 2010, 08:30 AM | #14 |
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Perhaps you should try Firefox? In fact, I believe it was the discovery that I, and at least one other EMD member, made that that we could access our Hotmail account options with FF when we were unable to do so with MS's own browser (back when MS was still trying to force on their users their now-defunct "new" Hotmail interface, which they ultimately overwhelmingly rejected), that, thus "forced" to use FF, I soon made it my main browser, only rarely ever using IE since. In fact, so rarely that I still haven't bothered updating it beyond version 6.
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19 May 2010, 05:48 PM | #15 |
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Hotmail Radio Ads...
Looks like Microsoft is VERY serious regarding its "NEW" Hotmail campaign, they even have radio ads!?
This has got to be a first! (...and Microsoft should probably patent that.) and of course no campaign would be complete without opposition... http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-desp...09322909106507 Last edited by kelly : 19 May 2010 at 05:58 PM. |