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Post by Touch-Money »

Ok Im interested in the whole new seperation of items thing rather than having a big mess. I use Phoenix aka Firebird as my default browser and I am interested in trying Thunderbird. I was wondering what do you guys consider as the best build for me to try out?
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Post by tve »

well there's not much to choose from yet:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird

if on Windows, download 2003-04-16-win32.zip, if on Mac or Linux, download the available builds for this platform :)
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if on linux [+]

build your own : ) - only branch currently, trunk when the patches are checked in
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Post by Touch-Money »

thanx for the help guys. i just have one last question. i configured it to get my mail from hotmail, but for some reason its not connecdting. is there a place that i can go were i can see if i configured it properly? Or does hotmail just not like thunderbird?
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AFAIK, Hotmail isn't using any known protocol such as POP3 or IMAP so it can't be supported in Thunderbird without reverse-engineering the Outlook module.

Still there seems to be some workarounds, see <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9357">this thread</a>.
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Post by Touch-Money »

Thanx for the help guys i downloaded a program called Hotmail popper and it works great. Only problem is that it doesnt download my junkmail folder and I cant get it configured properly so that i can send mail.
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yurk wrote:AFAIK, Hotmail isn't using any known protocol such as POP3 or IMAP so it can't be supported in Thunderbird without reverse-engineering the Outlook module.

Still there seems to be some workarounds, see <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9357">this thread</a>.


I wonder if the dev team could get permission to include one of the workarounds from another open source project into the main program.
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Post by willll »

I don't think we can put things in that are licensed solely under the GPL, like HOtmailPopper and YahooPops are (I'm not really sure about that though). So we would have to get a volunteer to do it (only if the devs approve of course), and it would require a lot of maintenance I think.
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