abc said:
I've configured Outlook to download my Hotmail account using POP3. I need
to see my Hotmail. Junk Mail folder as well but cannot. Is this possible to
setup? Please can you help me? If not I assume that I have to have get all
my junk mail sent to my Inbox and then filter out as and when I receive
junk.
Can you please advise a good way of handing this? In the past I used OE and
just view my Junk Mail folder from there.
POP has no concept of folders. It only understands a mailbox where ALL
your e-mails reside. Because POP doesn't use folders, there are no
commands within the Post Office Protocol to navigate or select folders.
It only has access to your mailbox. The mailbox that POP can access is
the Inbox folder you see when using the webmail client to your account.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_office_protocol
http://communication.howstuffworks.com/email.htm
http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/pop_basics.htm
http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/how_pop_works.htm
Hotmail has never had and still doesn't have IMAP access. IMAP lets you
access other folders in your e-mail account (or, more accurately, to
those folder that you have subscribed). Microsoft has hinted that they
make IMAP access possible in the future but no Hotmail user is going to
pend using their account until if and whenever IMAP access shows up.
The only way to have local access to the non-Inbox folders in your
Hotmail account is to use Deltasync (DAV support dies on Sept 1). This
protocol makes available all your folders that you defined using either
the Deltasync-enabled e-mail client (which then replicates that local
folder on the server) or syncs to those folders you created using the
webmail client. If you want IMAP-like access to your Hotmail account,
you'll need to use either the webmail client or a local e-mail client
that supports Deltasync, which are:
- Windows Live Mail (replaces Outlook Express and Vista's Windows Mail).
- Outlook 2003/2007 *plus* the Outlook Connector add-on (the add-on adds
Deltasync support since no version of Outlook natively supports
Deltasync).
Outlook Express NEVER had support for Deltasync. It is a dead product:
functional development ceased back in 2002, a patch for SP-2 in Windows
XP allowed moving the default location of signature and quoted content,
and security patches ended in 2006 when the development team got
disbanded. It does have DAV support but Microsoft is continued DAV
access to their mail hosts on Sept 1, 2009, and moving to Deltasync.
That means you can use OE for POP access to your Hotmail account but not
for Deltasync access (that would give you access to the other webmail
folders).
