265593 - Accessing web mailers without POP3 server (hotmail, yahoo, etc.)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Christian Flatscher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

Hi,

I am currently using web based accounts such as hotmail and yahoo. Unfortunately
you need to pay for accessing these accounts via a POP3 server - at least I have
only found this information there.

I want to be able to use Thunderbird / Mozilla to view and download e-mails from
these accounts as I would when using the Webbrowser to view the mails.

Is it possible to add this functionality to Thunderbird?

Thanks!

--Christian

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Why do you think they want you to pay for that feature in the first place ?

Hotmail integration is bug 25694.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=47212

Comment 3

[Christian Flatscher]

Hi Jo,

I do not think they want me to pay for it. I know that they want me to pay for
it as both have recently changed their conditions.

Hi Scott,

many thanks for the link. I will test one of the listed programs. Else I will
follow bug #25694.

--Christian