Hotmail Pop Access - The Future is Past Again

[ArNolD]

Apparently "Hotmail" has resurrected free POP3 access again (unless this is a 'hack'). I just successfully re-enabled pop access in both my mailshredder and OE programs and seem to have found that they saved a very old Hotmail address for me and I'm now getting again some old LONG FORGOTTEN services' email from Fridae, Squirt, Czech RB (GM), PO, CFS ...

Hotmail Live POP3 Access:
POP Server: pop3.live.com
POP Server Port: 995
POP SSL Required? Yes
Username: Your Windows Live ID, eg. user@hotmail.com
Password: Your Hotmail or Windows Live Password
SMTP Server: smtp.live.com
SMTP Server Port: 25
SMTP Authentication Required? Yes (same as POP3 username and password)
SMTP SSL Required? Yes

You would still have to go through a browser if you would ever wat to check the HM junk mail folder (need IMAP for that).

[quiet1]

If Hotmail pop3 access was terminated and then resurrected, it must have been quite a while ago. I can't recall how long it's been that I've been downloading my Hotmail with Thunderbird via pop3 access, but I've been doing that for quite a while now.