Suddenly Hotmail won't work with Mail.app

[retrotron]

Sometime last week Mail.app stopped being able to connect to my hotmail account. It's worked fine for the last year, and I haven't changed anything with Mail.app, but suddenly hotmail just stopped working. I have no idea what might be the cause. Anybody know if microsoft changed something and if I need to update my plugin or something?

 

[blue&whiteman]

yes. microsoft stopped pop3 access to their hotmail server. get someone with a gmail account to send you an invite and then you're hooked up.

 

[bobw]

Try httpmail plugin

 

[retrotron]

Ah, it seems that MS's changes caused an error in the httpmail plugin, but the latest version of httpmail has fixed that.

Yeah, I definitely prefer my gmail account and any other account at all over my hotmail account.