Hotmail, mail.app and Intel Macs
Hotmail users with Intel Macs face problems using Mail.app to read their emails.
Cris Pierry points out 
that HTTPMail, a Mail plugin that enables the downloading of emails from Hotmail’s web interface has not yet been compiled as a universal binary.
As a result it won’t run as a plugin in Mail.app on Intel Macs. He provides instructions on forcing Mail to run under Rosetta, which produces quite a performance hit but allows you to use HTTPMail.
As far as I know, other options for “translating” emails from web-based email services, Mail Forward and MacFreePOPs, are not yet universal binaries either.
For Cris, running Mail under Rosetta is unbearable. He is going to use the web interface to get his email while he moves over to Gmail.
UPDATE: As Gavin suggests in the comments on another post, there is an easy work-around for Hotmail users:
- Set up a Fastmail account (it’s free and it’s excellent. I have a (paid) account there, so I know how good it is). Of course, any good email service that offers polling of web-based mail will do the trick.
- Set the Fastmail account to poll your Hotmail account and to download the messages into your IMAP account at Fastmail.
- Collect your Fastmail messages in Mail.app.
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April 21st, 2006 at 4:47 am
I haven’t used Hotmail in years, but I do use MacFreePops to launch freepopsd so that I can check my Yahoo email address on my MacBook Pro and it works just fine. I haven’t seen anything strange going on in Activity Monitor even though FreePopsd is running under Rosetta.
April 21st, 2006 at 8:11 am
Sure. Neither MacFreePOPS nor Mail Forward are plugins per se that need to run “inside” Mail like HTTPMail does, so they happily chug away under Rosetta while Mail gets to run native.
April 21st, 2006 at 8:40 am
If you’ve got the Developer tools installed, and don’t mind compiling a bit of code, try hotwayd, which is a POP3 proxy for Hotmail: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotwayd/. Though, once again, it’s not a plugin.
April 21st, 2006 at 4:15 pm
I’ve posted a followup comment to the “free” FastMail account suggestion in that other post.
June 3rd, 2006 at 5:36 am
how do u.. retrieve your sent items folder in hotmail using fastmail
June 3rd, 2006 at 10:19 am
To be honest, I have no idea. I would ask in the Fastmail user forums
.