[Spambayes] Hotmail Confusion

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Sun Dec 7 21:26:08 EST 2003


> thanks for trying. Meanwhile let me ask this-- let's say I
> only had a hotmail account that I view the normal way,
> through the web browser. Will one of Spambayes' configuration
> work with a web-based email account?

You would be out of luck.  For SpamBayes to work, you must user either a
mail server that works with your version of Outlook, or a mail-server that
supports the standard 'pop3' protocol.  What this means in reality is that
you need to use Outlook 2002 to use SpamBayes with hotmail.

Mark.




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