BudV said:
Running OL2007 under Vista Home Premium SP2.
I'm switching from four accounts with ATT (POP3) to four accounts with MSN
(MAPI). I will set the ATT accounts to forward to the MSN accounts after
the switchover.
That may last for maybe a month. SMTP access usually gets cut off
immediately when you terminate your subscription with an e-mail service
provider. POP/IMAP access may last for another month or whenever is their
normal billing cycle. The forwarding will only last for awhile unless you
are keeping those ATT accounts alive.
If they are paid ATT accounts and you are no longer paying for them, expect
them to go completely dead in about a month. If you no longer have a
contract with them, you don't get any service from them. If you terminated
your account, you probably already cannot send through them. Soon you won't
be able to receive through them, either.
If it is a freebie account, those often become disabled after a period of
inactivity (perhaps 2 months) and are then eligible for deletion when they
have been inactive for awhile (like after 4 to 6 months). Activity is
determined by having to login into the account to show you've been there.
You do that when you use a local e-mail client that has to log into your
account to check, retrieve, and send e-mails. Forwarding (pushing) from an
account never has you logging into that account, so your freebie account
will disappear after awhile and you might not be able to reactivate it. If
your new account permits polling (yanking) of your old accounts, use that.
Yanking e-mails requires logging into those old accounts and that will keep
them from going idle (inactive). Pushing only works if it isn't a freebie
account; i.e., your money is keeping the account active.
Hotmail does let you poll other POP accounts. That would be a smarter
choice if you intend to keep freebie accounts activated because the poll
requires logging into those other accounts. If you only want to forward
e-mails from the old accounts until they eventually go dead, have them
forward to your Hotmail account. The forwarding will die when they get
around to killing all portions of your account for which you longer
subscribe from them.
I used Outlook Connector to set up the MSN accounts, and I was under the
impression that it would set up OL (it did) and would also do what's
necessary at MSN to set them up there (I'm not sure about that).
Did I skip any steps, or should I be ready to go?
Can you successfully poll your new MSN accounts using the HTTP/Deltasync
access that the Outlook Connector afforded to Outlook? Does it work?
If you search this newsgroup on users posting about problems regarding the
Outlook Connector, you can come to your own conclusion as to whether it is
reliable enough for your use. Personally I've found it too flaky; however,
the Hotmail service isn't super-reliable, either. But you decided to go
with Hotmail where you can choose to use either POP or HTTP/Deltasync to
access your mailbox (POP only gives you access to the Inbox folder seen in
the webmail client whereas Deltasync gives you IMAP-like access to all the
folders).
