I've had an email account with Hotmail for about 9 years, so I can access my account remotely through Outlook Express/Outlook for free.
I've recently decided to totally remove Office from my system and migrate to OpenOffice, which is cool, but it doesn't come with an alternative for Outlook.
So I went straight to Mozilla and downloaded Thunderbird, hoping that would be a good alternative.
After failing to get it working initially, I found out through Googling about a bit that you have to install these two extentions;
http://webmail.mozdev.org/installation.html
Web-Mail-1.3.1 and Hotmail-1.2.14.
so having installed them, creating a new account actually works, and Thunderbird started downloading my mail! Woo!
But then.. after downloading about 40-50 or so, it stops. It's also downloaded everything into one folder (Inbox) though apparently that's what Thunderbird does with Hotmail anyway.
Then it says 'Connection to server localhost timed out'
I sifted through the emails I wanted and didn't want, organised a few folders, deleted most and then tried to reconnect. It did log me in, indicates in the bottom left that it's downloading 1 of 359 emails, then that just disappears, and then gives me the time out message again.
I've been using open source software like Firefox for years, so I don't understand why Thunderbird doesn't work as flawlessly as Firefox does.
Thunderbird just won't download any more mail, no matter what I do.
I've recently decided to totally remove Office from my system and migrate to OpenOffice, which is cool, but it doesn't come with an alternative for Outlook.
So I went straight to Mozilla and downloaded Thunderbird, hoping that would be a good alternative.
After failing to get it working initially, I found out through Googling about a bit that you have to install these two extentions;
http://webmail.mozdev.org/installation.html
Web-Mail-1.3.1 and Hotmail-1.2.14.
so having installed them, creating a new account actually works, and Thunderbird started downloading my mail! Woo!
But then.. after downloading about 40-50 or so, it stops. It's also downloaded everything into one folder (Inbox) though apparently that's what Thunderbird does with Hotmail anyway.
Then it says 'Connection to server localhost timed out'
I sifted through the emails I wanted and didn't want, organised a few folders, deleted most and then tried to reconnect. It did log me in, indicates in the bottom left that it's downloading 1 of 359 emails, then that just disappears, and then gives me the time out message again.
I've been using open source software like Firefox for years, so I don't understand why Thunderbird doesn't work as flawlessly as Firefox does.
Thunderbird just won't download any more mail, no matter what I do.
