I hate Hotmail.
Mostly it's the ads. I've been using it for a couple of years now, simply because I've been to cheap to pay someone to co-host one of my Linux servers. But I'm getting fed up with the limitation on storage size and the slowness. It has a limited utility value when I'm travelling but I could with very little effort duplicate the functionality on my own server. So what's the point of continuing to use it?
What I need to do is transition to an account that re-direct my email (like SpamCop) to my own server. Then when I get a fast, permanent connection I'll just redirect it to my own Linux box.
In the mean time the HTTPMail proxy server for Mac OS X's Mail seems to have a lot of promise. It can "scrape" the content from my Hotmail account and I can then store my email locally and use the Mail app under OS X to read it, categorize it, and to send mail.
It was very easy to get working (even through my proxy server) and I can recommend it (though I've only had it worked for a couple of hours).
Now if I can get it to work with my yahoo account. One can only hope.
Posted by artandscience at January 16, 2004 12:00 AMDon't like hotmail? DON'T USE IT! Yes, it really is that simple. You have hundreds of thousands of other free webmail accounts to choose from. Why even consider one of the very worst?
Posted by: Eric Melech at April 4, 2004 01:09 AMWell, mostly becuase there is this plugin - who cares if it's one of the "worst" if you can bypass the godawful front end and use Panther's Mail? Yeah, their spam blocking could be better - but then Panther handles that nicely on its own.
Of course, you could just set up your own MX records and enable postfix on your local box.
Posted by: Mark Jensen at April 15, 2004 09:14 AM