Mozilla 1.7.13

[Clint Tinsley]

> I don't think you're understanding what I am talking about. The 
> Webmail Extension services the big companies who offer Webmail 
> features. (MSN/Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail, and others.), that doesn't 
> necessarily mean it's like using their webmail features. I don't 
> have to go to the MSN/Live/Hotmail website. I can do this all in 
> Thunderbird 1.5.  Natively, I can't do that. Thus, I use this 
> extension.
> 
> The Hotmail sub-extension supports 3 modes, screen scrapping WebDav 
> and Beta. As I understand it, Screen scrapping is to be used for 
> Hotmail/MSN.
> WebDav is exactly what Outlook/Outlook Express use to talk to MSN. 
> It's an HTTP extension of some sort. Beta is used for Windows Live.
 
> This nifty little extension pulls email in to Thunderbird. Sends 
> and receives "webmail" as if it were native to Thunderbird. Which 
> is what you'd expect out of a POP/SMTP client and what you're 
> looking for, yes?

Basically.  I'll have to give this a look.

> Also, download Mozilla 1.7.13 via the URL below. Keep in mind 
> you'll have to install with root, else you'll get an install error. 
> I downloaded and installed without a hassle tonight.
> 
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.13/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.13-installer.tar.gz

Thanks.  This is a different installation file than I used.  I hope it works and I'll be dancin!

> Good Luck

Thank you.

Clint

> --Stereo
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> Clint Tinsley wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for your thoughts on this.
> >
> > I can access my MSN account in "webmail" mode via just about any 
> > web browser but that does not pull the messages or contact 
> > information down off MSN's webmail access via HotMail for storage 
> > and use on the computer.  The issue is using POP3/SMTP natively 
> > to pull and send email to the MSN POP3/SMTP servers (non-Hotmail 
> > mode) which requires that the email client properly support 
> > Microsoft Secure Authentication protocol.  If I wanted to use 
> > IMAP or HTTP, I already could do that with Evolution or an other 
> > client but as things now, I am heavily entrenced in Mozilla mail 
> > as that is where all my current email and contact/address book 
> > information lives.  I was able to install Mozilla 1.7.13 on both 
> > Fedora Core 5 and SuSE 10.1 but it won't install to Dapper.  
> > Mozilla 1.7.12, available from the universe repository, installs 
> > okay, but then when I try to connect to MSN using it, 1.7.12 
> > reports back that MSN does not support Secure Authenication when 
> > it fact, it not only does it support it but requires it.
> >
> >
> >>> My issue is that even though I am running Linux, I use MSN for 
> >>> my email via POP3/SMTP and that requires that the email client 
> >>> properly supports Secure Authentication in the Microsoft way.  
> >>> Unless I can get Mozilla working working on Ubuntu, this is a 
> >>> bit of a road block for me in using Dapper on a day to day 
> >>> basis.  The real mystery to me is why/how secure authentication 
> >>> was "broken" in the current versions of Thunderbird and 
> >>> SeaMonkey such that Mozilla 1.7.13 is the only thing that seems 
> >>> to work on the Linux side of the world.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your thoughts on this but going to a seperate email 
> >>> system doesn't work for me when all my address and email are 
> >>> stuck in the pop3/smtp world and locked to MSN due to that 
> >>> being my "known" email address.
> >>>
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