Postal Letter

can i add my hotmail account to the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client?

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1. Funny you ask, I tried it myself and did not succeed. I did succeed to do so in Outlook Express. So I use that instead of Thunderbird. When you get an answer, explaining how to do it with Thunderbird. pls let me know. are2039@hotmail.com
2. I'm sure you can because I added my Yahoo mail account to Thunderbird. You might never figure it out on your own, so read carefully: For email, you need the Incoming Mail Server (POP3) and the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) from your email account. So in my case I go Yahoo Mail > Options > POP Access and Forwarding > View Pop Settings > Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mail.yahoo.ca & Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.ca . The 1st thing I didn't like was, instead of just making copies, Thunderbird emptied my Yahoo email inbox, so to prevent that I refer you to another Yahoo Answer: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjuhE2xeQQEKT8Kud9Pz18UAAAAA;_ylv=3?qid=20070603035536AAkJJ5M I stopped using Thunderbird as my email client because it seems that it is mostly for people with laptops who have to process a lot of email offline. Another problem was "sent" copies did not go automatically to my Yahoo account, but I could forward them one by one, which would be a hassle. It was good when I clicked "contact" on a website, and the Thunderbird pop-up was all configured to send the email because we have all had the default MS Outlook Express (which I've tried and is very similar to Mozilla Thunderbird) pop-up appear only to have to close it after clipping the email address because it wouldn't work. You probably want newsgroups (that other big part of the internet that preceded the World Wide Web), which are just public email bulletin boards. You need the NNTP from your ISP if they provide one; otherwise, you have to pay extra for a service like http://www.giganews.com/ , which I mention because Mozilla Support uses it. Usually it is the name of your ISP followed by "news". So in my case, it is "shawnews." Another NNTP you need for Mozilla's support newsgroups is "news.mozilla.org." If you like free speech, you will love the unmonitored newsgroups, but report any child porn you find to a group like Canada's https://www.cybertip.ca/app/en/report . Thunderbird is a newsreader like "My MSN" or "My Yahoo", that will also allow RSS news feeds. To set that up go Thunderbird > Create a New Account > RSS News & Blogs > Confirm Account Name as "News & Blogs" > Finish. Then go to a site like http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5216556/?page=3&#DatelineNBC to find feeds for things like the "To Catch a Predator" series on Dateline > right-click "XML" > Copy Link Location > Thunderbird > News & Blogs > Manage Subscriptions > Add > Paste copied link as "Feed URL" > OK. Your RSS feeds will look a lot like newsgroups posts except that they are not for public posting like newsgroups. You can also try Mozilla SeaMonkey because it is a browser, newsreader, email client, and IRC chat client all rolled into one. Sea Monkey worked slower downloading news posts for me (maybe because my operating system is MS Vista), so I switched back to Thunderbird, but other people say they have no problem with it. I like the IRC chat client Chatzilla built into SeaMonkey because unlike web chat rooms, you can create your own chat room.