Comments on: HTTPMail: Hotmail in Apple Mail

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:35:15 +0000

See this — http://blog.danielparnell.com/?p=44

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:24:16 +0000

Will httpmail be compatible with leopard?
I enjoyed it so much in the past
Thanks a lot

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:33:01 +0000

What do I put in the Incoming Mail server section? I can’t find step by step. Ok so I am dumb. Help.

I ‘d welcome any help.

By: Martin_P

Martin_P — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:25:38 +0000

Its still not working for me, its states that I have to sign up for something error:

“Could not connect to ‘hotmail’ Access to Hotmail Via Outlook and Outlook Express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at http://join.msn.com/general/Email” ive swiched the thing to Outlook like said above but still no joy, I really need to do this. any ideas?

By: Devil666

Devil666 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:58:57 +0000

The developer did not complete compiling this. You have to finish compiling it in Terminal. Too bad the developer didn’t write a script that would run with the installer to do what needs to be done in Terminal. There is just too much of this half-done, Linux-y, geeky stuff on Sourceforge. I waste my time downloading and installing this stuff only to find that it doesn’t work until I do some building in Terminal.

By: Nick Beech

Nick Beech — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:05:45 +0000

Hi Alemizu,

Not so dumb and ridiculously useful!! Thank you. so much, this solved a problem I have been baflled by for a while.

By: Alemizu

Alemizu — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:04:57 +0000

Hello to everyone.
I post this here as a solution to a problem I had and almost made me believe the plugin wouldn’t work for me.
For years I used Entourage on my mac, and now I am moving to apple mail. After configuring my hotmail account in apple mail, It wouldn’t connect to the mail server.
After 2 days searching around the net and looking for answers I finaly went to the preferences and in the HTTPMail plugin tab and changed the “User Agent” from “Entourage” to “Outlook” and right away it started downloading my hotmail messsages ! !
How dumb I had been not to check that straight away. Well, because I had been using Entourage w/ hotmail w/ no problem I thought there were no reason to change the User Agent.
I hope this experience of mine can help someone out there !

cheers

Alemizu

Macbook Pro Intel 2.16 (2006)
OS X.4.9
Apple Mail 2.1.1
HTTPMail Universal 1.49
Hotmail account since… well that I don’t remember… ages

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:16:23 +0000

No, it doesn't. Looking at the bug tracker , I see that no bugs have been submitted since March, which doesn't bode well. Another reader posted today that MacFreePOPs is working fine with Hotmail. Perhaps you could give that a try?

By: my

my — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:58:01 +0000

I have installed version 1.49 but apple mail gives a connection failed bad passsword message??? I know the password is correct, please can anybody help?

Does the hotmail account have to be a hotmail+

thanks

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:25:10 +0000

Yes, it works. “FreePops” had not worked for MONTHS, but this did. At last, I can again get my Hotmail messages into Mac’s Mail.app.

HTTPmail installed easily and quickly, and began working immediately.

Whew! What a relief after all these months of frustration.

– Derek