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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Finally it looks like there's a good solution in
the pipeline for accessing Hotmail from Linux. For once, Microsoft
blinked, and backed away from proprietary, closed source protocols. They
are finally opening up POP3 and SMTP access to Hotmail. Of course, not in
the USA yet!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It appears that this was driven by cell phones
which support POP3 and SMTP, and M$ figured out that they can't possibly push
their proprietary junk into enough cell phones to avoid customer churn away from
Hotmail.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN id=ctl00_MainContentPlaceholder_ctl01_ctl00_lblEntry>We are happy to
announce that POP3 technology is now available to Hotmail users in the
<STRONG>United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany,
Italy,</STRONG> and <STRONG>the</STRONG> <STRONG>Netherlands</STRONG>. If you
don’t see your country or region in this list, never fear, we’ll be rolling POP3
out to more parts of the world later this year. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>If you are not lucky enough to be in a country yet with POP3 access,
then you could simply alter your Hotmail account to a country that
does.<BR>Article here on altering your country to the United Kingdom, which then
allows POP3 access.<BR><A
href="http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/01/22/hack-to-enable-hotmail-pop3-and-smtp-support-instantly-for-all-countries/"
rel=nofollow>http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/01/22/hack-to-enable-hotmail-pop3-and-smtp-support-instantly-for-all-countries/</A></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2>As mentioned on this list before, I have kept
an XP VM running on my Linux machine just so that I could reliably access
Hotmail and run Visio. Well, I hardly ever need Visio from Linux nowadays,
so this fix should mean that I no longer have to fire up the XP VM. Free
at last!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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