Mac question: any email client that can check hotmail accoun

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:37 am

Very OT question, but I seek advice from the mac gurus. I'm setting up my wife's newly acquired ibook g4, but I'm having trouble finding an e-mail client that handles web based e-mail. Perhaps I'm looking in the worng places. Eudora doesn't seem to support checking and sending through web based accounts. I remember seeing a couple of windows based clients that do this.

Bottom line is, my wife needs to be able to check a hotmail account, and also a netscape account.

Man, the wife's running around with a 1ghz g4 with 768mg RAM. Maybe I should install max/MSP on it. hehe.

[ This Message was edited by: kensuguro on 2004-04-24 04:38 ]

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:55 am

Hi Kensuguro,

Perhaps this one helps: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6886

But in fact I don't know if I get you right. Why can't you (your wife) access the e-mail account via a browser?

[ This Message was edited by: samplaire on 2004-04-24 04:57 ]

Post by **hubird** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:23 am

even more OT...now I see she is REALLY perfect...she's on mac

Post by **hubird** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 6:10 am

BTW I read your post wrong, now I see: I simply use MS Outlook for mac, it gets my Hotmail post into it perfectly.
Guess that's what you're asking

[ This Message was edited by: hubird on 2004-04-24 07:11 ]

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 6:59 am

If so - Outlook express does it good, too

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:43 am

ah, so it seems I must submit myself to the MS empire. Oh well, whatever works.

thanx for the help guys. Keep me posted if there are any alternative solutions.

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 6:33 pm

The MS Outlook Express is more reliable on the Mac than on the PC - more options, more flexibility

AudioIrony · Post by **AudioIrony** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:12 pm

You can download an open source plugin for Mail.app

http://sourceforge.net/projects/httpmail-plugin

This will allow mail.app to access Hotmails httpmail servers

EDIT: This tip assumes your wife is on OS X

[ This Message was edited by: Odd Assembly on 2004-04-24 20:56 ]

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:29 am

ahh, so now I've found out. Both hotmal (msn) and netscape use proprietory formats, so you need specific software to talk to their mail servers. On the other hand, Yahoo mail works just like a regular POP mail server.