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Reprieve: Hotmail for Mail.app not (quite) dead

Hotmail LogoWell, who would have thought? News of Hotmail’s death for mail.app users is exaggerated.

Microsoft has relented and deferred the transition from WebDAV to its own DeltaSync standard. This means that Mail.app users with HTTPMail and MacFreePOPs plugins won’t be cut off on 30 June after all.

After listening to customer feedback from the original accouncement, Microsoft told its users “it became clear that you needed additional time to evaluate alternative solutions”.

Still, this only postpones the executioner’s axe. Don’t fritter away all the extra time Microsoft has given you in making a decision.

With apologies for any distress.

[Via The Fastmail.fm Weblog ] Apple Mail, fastmail, GMAIL, hotmail, httpmail, macfreepops, mail.app, microsoft, webmail, webdav

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3 Responses to “Reprieve: Hotmail for Mail.app not (quite) dead”

  1. roz says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am

    if your hotmail account allows forwarding you can also forward to gmail and use that to access your email via IMAP.

  2. rjjkp says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    I have my hotmail account forwarded to my ISP: Comcast mail. Then I have my Comcast mail forwarded to my .mac mail account. So far it works ok. Should I worry?

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    June 21st, 2008 at 1:02 pm

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