Email racket
I suspect very strongly that there is an email client racket going on…. I was approached by someone who uses Windows Live Mail (this person is running Windows 7), and every now and then, Windows Live Mail throws up a stinker when trying to connect to Google’s Mail server….by prompting for a password as “it does not recognize the account being valid“….
Like myself, I use Thunderbird, and Google’s Mail functionality works like a charm, but when attempting to pull down from Hotmail, it kicks up saying it cannot pull down the emails from hotmail…. After I explained that to this person, and got that person to see the conclusions….
This lead me to wonder, I have to get this off my chest…
Are Microsoft and the open source Mozilla are squaring up a subtle battle between each other? But who suffers in silence and at who’s cost? The end-users such as this unfortunate person who has to put up with the frustration of the relentless bickering…
My take… Live Mail is developed in such a way to throw up a temperamental tantrum with connecting to Google…
Of course credit is due to the developers of the Thunderbird plugin which enables to pull down the emails from Hotmail, every now and then this plugin has to be updated due to protocol changes (by Hotmail) where Thunderbird does not understand the Hotmail’s protocol for talking to each other….and hence have to be updated regularly…
Mozilla’s relationship with Google seems obviously cosy and hence works like a charm…. but when it comes to pulling emails down from Hotmail…
And likewise, Windows Live mail can pull down emails from other non-Google servers (I suspect it would work a charm with Hotmail in this case)
sigh… you just cannot win…
This is quite a possible and plausible theory that I’ve suspected for a very long time….Hmmmm….
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July 22, 2010 5:18 pm 
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