Netscape and Hotmail.

I just downloaded Netscape 8.0 Beta browser and unlike Firebird and
Thunderbird, I am impressed with it. Like many people who started on the
internet in the mid 90's I stayed with Netscape as long as possible.
Likewise I have been using I.E. for a good while and I am comfortable with
it and it is very easy to customize. I use O.E. for my Hotmail and local
ISP email accounts.
I signed up for a Netscape email account which works fine with my Yahoo and
local ISP email accounts but I can't send email to my Hotmail account.
Netscape calls up Outlook Express to read my local ISP and Hotmail
accounts.
I'm guessing this is a little tit for tat like the Instant messaging battle
a couple of years ago.
Does anyone have any other plausible explanation?

"tango" wrote in message
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I just downloaded Netscape 8.0 Beta browser and unlike Firebird and
Thunderbird, I am impressed with it. Like many people who started on the
internet in the mid 90's I stayed with Netscape as long as possible.
Likewise I have been using I.E. for a good while and I am comfortable with
it and it is very easy to customize. I use O.E. for my Hotmail and local
ISP email accounts.
I signed up for a Netscape email account which works fine with my Yahoo
and
local ISP email accounts but I can't send email to my Hotmail account.
Netscape calls up Outlook Express to read my local ISP and Hotmail
accounts.
I'm guessing this is a little tit for tat like the Instant messaging
battle
a couple of years ago.
Does anyone have any other plausible explanation?



Well, the word beta comes to mind. Beta's are not finished products and
have bugs. Check the beta groups if they exist for it and see if anyone else
is seeing similar.

"tango" wrote in message
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I just downloaded Netscape 8.0 Beta browser and unlike Firebird and
Thunderbird, I am impressed with it. Like many people who started on
the
internet in the mid 90's I stayed with Netscape as long as possible.
Likewise I have been using I.E. for a good while and I am comfortable
with
it and it is very easy to customize. I use O.E. for my Hotmail and
local
ISP email accounts.
I signed up for a Netscape email account which works fine with my
Yahoo and
local ISP email accounts but I can't send email to my Hotmail account.
Netscape calls up Outlook Express to read my local ISP and Hotmail
accounts.
I'm guessing this is a little tit for tat like the Instant messaging
battle
a couple of years ago.
Does anyone have any other plausible explanation?


I wasn't aware that any of the Netscape-based e-mail clients actually
supported Microsoft's WebDAV (used to connect the e-mail client to an MS
Exchange mail server; see http://snipurl.com/dmy5) that is used to
connect to a Hotmail account. Hotmail uses the HTTP/WebDAV protocol,
not POP3 or SMTP.

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In article , tango says...

I just downloaded Netscape 8.0 Beta browser and unlike Firebird and
Thunderbird, I am impressed with it. Like many people who started on the
internet in the mid 90's I stayed with Netscape as long as possible.
Likewise I have been using I.E. for a good while and I am comfortable with
it and it is very easy to customize. I use O.E. for my Hotmail and local
ISP email accounts.

I signed up for a Netscape email account which works fine with my Yahoo and
local ISP email accounts but I can't send email to my Hotmail account.
Netscape calls up Outlook Express to read my local ISP and Hotmail
accounts.

Can you rephrase this? It is a little murky about what you are trying to do.
Here is what I do know:

Netscape Web Mail uses a proprietary extension to the IMAP mail storage
protocol. You can only use the Netscape 6.x, Netscape 7.x, and, presumably,
Netscape 8.0 beta mail clients to access the web mail account. In the NS 6
and NS 7 series, you must also install the full browser suite, including the
AIM/ICQ modules, to enable web mail account access with the Netscape
software. No other browser suite, not even Mozilla, works with Netscape Web
Mail.

MSN Hotmail uses a proprietary protocol called, "HTTPMail", which requires
WebDAV access. AFAIK, nobody but MSFT has software which can access a WebDAV
mail service. MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express, AFAIK, are the only mail
clients which can directly access HTTPMail servers. Not Netscape, not
Thunderbird, not any other Mozilla mail client. And do keep in mind, I am
referring to the HTTPMail protocol, not HTTP/HTTPS.

I'm guessing this is a little tit for tat like the Instant messaging battle
a couple of years ago.

Not at all. Email is rather unrelated.

Does anyone have any other plausible explanation?

Nope. Just that you can't use the Netscape mail client with anything other
than standard SMTP/POP3/IMAP mail services; with the exception of the
Netscape Web Mail service.

Now, if you simply meant that email sent to an MSN Hotmail account from a
Netscape Web Mail account fails to arrive, that is an entirely different
matter.

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