250671 - Implement httpmail protocol for TB

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 25694

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[daneel]

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Hotmail is a very popular service and unlike most webmail services, it 
implemented a httpmail server for *free account* users to access their mails 
using OE. This whole things works sort of like IMAP. Although this is a 
proprietary protocol, it has been partially documented 
(http://jhttpmail.sourceforge.net/httpmail.html) and there are several 
opensource implementation of this.

I understand that this is better implemented as an extension, however, due to 
its complexity (new mail protocol) and the fact that currently TB is receiving 
less public attention than FX (less potential extensions devs) and lastly the 
fact that that various webmail proxy programs have different limitations and 
nagative sides (hotpopper: shareware, windows only; MrPostman: somewhat 
inefficient due to Java; freemail.fm and other relay services: their storage 
will be too small for hotmail after the hotmail storage upgrade due this coming 
fall (250mb for free users) and they are not quite transparent. Lastly, this is 
the only things that prevents me and I bet quite a few users from using TB and 
this is a feature that has been requested many times on the forum.

So, I hope you would consider these reasons and consider implementing this 
feature.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Adam Becevello]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25694 ***