Hotmail question

Trying to help a relation with Hotmail. This is with Outlook 2003.

Using the Hotmail website is so slow that it takes hours to read & reply
to one email.

Speedtests report about 3 mbits/sec reasnonably consistently.

Yesterday the settings:

smtp.live.com
no SPA
port 587
use SSL

.... all worked OK for sending messages.

Today they fail with different errors: server doesn't support the
protocol, can't communicate with server, etc.

Is this an inherent problem with Hotmail?

Is it worth setting up a new account with Gmail? Or is that just as bad?

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Graham J

Graham J wrote...

>
> Trying to help a relation with Hotmail. This is with Outlook 2003.
>
> Using the Hotmail website is so slow that it takes hours to read & reply
> to one email.
>
> Speedtests report about 3 mbits/sec reasnonably consistently.
>
> Yesterday the settings:
>
> smtp.live.com
> no SPA
> port 587
> use SSL
>
> ... all worked OK for sending messages.
>
> Today they fail with different errors: server doesn't support the
> protocol, can't communicate with server, etc.
>
> Is this an inherent problem with Hotmail?
>
> Is it worth setting up a new account with Gmail? Or is that just as bad?



Hardly any problems with Gmail - gave up on Hotmail years back.

Graham J wrote...

> Is it worth setting up a new account with Gmail? Or is that just as bad?
>
I've been using Gmail for my main email addresses since 2004 and cannot
remember having a single problem accessing either through the web
interface or using POP via Thunderbird. The spam filtering is near
faultless.


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Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

On 20/10/2011 21:51, UnsteadyKen wrote:
>
> Graham J wrote...
>
>> Is it worth setting up a new account with Gmail? Or is that just as bad?
>>
> I've been using Gmail for my main email addresses since 2004 and cannot
> remember having a single problem accessing either through the web
> interface or using POP via Thunderbird. The spam filtering is near
> faultless.
>
>
Agreed!
George

George Weston wrote:
> On 20/10/2011 21:51, UnsteadyKen wrote:
>>
>> Graham J wrote...
>>
>>> Is it worth setting up a new account with Gmail? Or is that just
>>> as bad?
>> I've been using Gmail for my main email addresses since 2004 and
>> cannot remember having a single problem accessing either through the
>> web interface or using POP via Thunderbird. The spam filtering is
>> near faultless.
>>
> Agreed!
> George
>
3rd'ed and Yahoo's Ymail as an close alternative to Gmail

I wouldn't give the time of day to hotmail

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such a good thread and nice info but i have a question too,I left my hotmail account open on someone's (a guy I am dating) computer. And, let's just say that there are some emails about him that I don't want him to see. So, when I got home, I went right to my computer and logged into hotmail and deleted all of the emails. Then, I continued to change the password. The question is, did the changes I made (deleting, changing password) take effect on my account on his computer or could he have viewed continued viewing all the info. unchanged?