Retrieve mail from your company, an Internet Service Provider or any other Post Office Protocol (POP) account. is how one is greeted once again from the options page after selecting POP Mail Retrieval Settings on MSN Hotmail.
Thanks Micheal who sent in via email that it appears hotmail has re-added the POP mail checking support for non-paying members.
Microsoft faced a hailstorm (pardon the pun) after it stripped features, cut "inactive days" time on mailboxes and offered a paid service with added features and email storage space in order to turn revenue for the popular once exclusively free MSN Hotmail service.
Now non paying users may retrieve messages from up to four other POP e-mail accounts making it a breeze to track your email if you are away from your PC on vacation or business.
Good call Microsoft. This gets the Neowin stamp of approval, so lets forget about what I said earlier about the viruses slipping through it's filter ;-)
View: MSN Hotmail
Thanks Micheal who sent in via email that it appears hotmail has re-added the POP mail checking support for non-paying members.
Microsoft faced a hailstorm (pardon the pun) after it stripped features, cut "inactive days" time on mailboxes and offered a paid service with added features and email storage space in order to turn revenue for the popular once exclusively free MSN Hotmail service.
Now non paying users may retrieve messages from up to four other POP e-mail accounts making it a breeze to track your email if you are away from your PC on vacation or business.
Good call Microsoft. This gets the Neowin stamp of approval, so lets forget about what I said earlier about the viruses slipping through it's filter ;-)
View: MSN Hotmail
Last July, The Register reported how Hotmail failed to stop the SirCam worm because, like this time, antivirus protection had not been updated. We understand Hotmail's protection is updated on Thursday nights, so hopefully things will be put right soon. In fairness Hotmail is one of the few Web-based email services to have any virus protection, but its failure to deal with the Yaha-E virus could contribute to a false sense of security - as well as acting a vector in the spread of the worm.
Managed services firm MessageLabs has intercepted 28,505 copies of the virus so far, 4,895 of which were caught today. Infection seems to be particularly prevalent in Britain and The Netherlands (and no, we're not sure why this is either).
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