Earle said:
OE WebDAV is still working today for paid MSN accounts. That includes MSN
Premium dialup, MSN Premium byo Internet and partner accounts like Qwest.
But if you pay for a Premium account, doesn't that also give you access
to POP/SMTP mail hosts at Hotmail? I remember reading that Live Hotmail
Plus (paid) returned POP/SMTP mail host access back in November 2007 but
that did not include MSN Hotmail Premium (paid). Bummer. I guess the
MSN Hotmail Premium accounts haven't yet been fully migrated to Live
Hotmail Plus accounts.
MSFT says you need HTTP/Deltasync protocol to access their email now, but it
would be a simple matter to enable all accounts for HTTP/WebDAV, pop3/smtp
and IMAP. Just load the software on the server and throw a switch in a
closet somewhere. They're just trying to get people to buy into their
HTTP/Deltasync protocol because of "features" that they say they need. Well
if the economy is as bad as people say, the "need" for a client that can
manage gigafolders will disappear and HTTP/Deltasync protocol will be moot.
From their claims regarding Deltasync, it seemed a moved mostly aimed at
Microsoft better handling the large volumes of e-mail but primarily for
those users that were saving thousands of e-mails consuming gigabytes of
storage. The performance savings on their server was insignificant for
low-volume users or those that never leave e-mails sitting on the server
(i.e., for users that prefer local client management of e-mails rather
than leaving them on the server). I don't have statistics on the type
of users at Hotmail, but I never leave old e-mails up on the server.
Their competition with Gmail to keep adding more and more storage into
the gigabyte range was meaningless to me since my e-mails don't
typically consume more than a couple hundred megabytes, even with
large-sized e-mails, plus I don't leave them on the server. Deltasync
wasn't appropriate to my use of Hotmail but then neither was having
gigabytes of disk quota.
This Spencer person just seems interested in stirring up trouble in these
forums. He's a troll in other words. I would recommend shunning or
"plonking" him.
He does whine a lot but then he also wants a better e-mail and
newsreader client (in wrong thinking that any combo product is going to
give him the best of both functionalities). Rather than ask questions
on how to improve his use of a particular product, and rather than trial
multiple products to figure out which comes closest to his match of
requirements, and because he obviously isn't going to hire a development
team to produce his own "does everything I want" version of an e-mail
client, he complains about what he can't get that someone else coded for
the masses. He likes to proselytize the shortcomings without really
addressing particular problems with possible solutions. It's possible
he is a troll based on the history of his posts. He's definitely
getting closer to my threshold for addition to my killfile.
