How Can you get your hot mail.

Question

How can I use mail on my Mac to get my hot mail like i did with outlook on my PC.?
Mac Minni   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Answer 1

Hello,
If you want to use MSN / Hotmail with Apple's mail, check out the program HTTPMail Plugin at:
http://www.automagic-software.com/downloads.php
You can also download it from SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/httpmail-plugin
And, strangely, while both the developer's site and SourceForge lists the latest version as 1.47 - Tiger release 2005-11-25, I found a 1.48 release at:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/httpmail-plugin.shtml
And also:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10842
And also:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18189
I just downloaded the 1.48 version, and it is in-fact a 1.48 release. So, that would appear to be the most current version. Perhaps the normal / direct sites just haven't been updated yet.
You can see a screen-shot and brief description of the older 1.46 version at:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/danielshttpmailplugin.html
The 1.47 version of the httpmail plug-in was released in November of 2005. But, the 1.48 version was apparently released in March of 2006.
It is not a "universal binary". It is a PowerPC only program / plug-in.
This is not an issue if you are using a PowerPC Mac. You can just install it and use it.
As for Intel Macs, it will install, but not run in a Intel Native program.
If you want to use a PowerPC plug-in with Mail on an Intel Mac, then you have to set Mail to run in PowerPC mode through Rosetta.
That will enable the plug-in to work. But, that means running mail through Rosetta which may be slower.
Just to be safe, you might actually want to set mail to run in Rosetta before you install the plug-in. That would probably be the safest route.
Here's a document about forcing a program to run in Rosetta.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303120
Give this a try and see if it works for you.
Hope this helps.