Reese said:
Is it true that one must be a PAYING Hotmail user to continue to be
able to download Hotmail emails locally on their machines via Outlook
2007?
Has anyone succeeded in doing this with Outlook 2007 and if so, are
you a PAYING Hotmail member?
Works for my freebie Hotmail account, but then mine is a very old
account that got grandfathered under the policy change back around
November 2004. You created your freebie Hotmail account too late to get
WebDAV access for that freebie account.
Some history:
- 1996 July: Hotmail becomes available.
- 1997 December: Microsoft buys Hotmail.
- 2000 February: For MSN, POP3 access is discontinued and switches to
WebDAV access. MSN "legacy" accounts created before that date continue
to get POP3 access. MSN accounts created after that date only get
WebDAV access.
- 2002 July: For Hotmail, POP3 access is discontinued and switches to
WebDAV access.
- 2004 November: For Hotmail, Microsoft changes policy to disable WebDAV
access for *new* FREE Hotmail accounts created after that date. Old
accounts created before that policy change date continue to get WebDAV
access. New accounts created after that date must pay to get WebDAV
access.