WLM supporting POP3 natively

[gssq]

Microsoft has opened up POP3 access to everyone using Hotmail (http://
windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!32413.entry)

Can Webmail leverage on this to download mail even more quickly and
efficiently?

I still see a place for Webmail even with the opening-up of Hotmail.
For one, when I download my mail via POP3 directly it doesn't mark the
downloaded mail as read !@#$

[alanrf]

The very rigid POP3 protocol allows for 2 conditions of a message in
the Inbox of the server. The message exists or it does not. POP
recognizes no other status of the message. Messages can be downloaded
from the server and they can be deleted from the server. That's all
you get with POP.

These extensions do not use POP to access the mail, if you want POP
then that is what the regular Thunderbird POP access is all about. The
"extras" that these extensions provide like setting mail to read,
downloading custom folders etc can only be done because they work
through the Web interface to access the mail.

Similarly - the direct SMTP servers do not save the sent mail on the
Web so you cannot see mail sent from Thunderbird using the direct SMTP
server. Mail sent via the Hotmail extension can be saved in the
"Sent" folder on the Web.

I wonder if the Webmail Author might consider some adjustment to the
Hotmail extension so that a Hotmail user can have a regular POP setup
for Hotmail to download the Inbox (and have the reliability of that)
and use a Webmail account in Thunderbird to access only custom folders
and not the Inbox. That way some of the "extras" provided by the
extension could still be used along with the reliability and better
speed of the direct POP access to the Inbox.

[gssq]

Ah, I'm guessing WebDav extended POP3, then.