Restricted access to Hotmail

Today when I attempted to connect to my Hotmail account through Outlook and Outlook Express I received the following exception message:

    Task 'Hotmail: Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers.' reported error (0x800CCCF6) :
    'The server responded 'Payment Required'. '

A wee bit of Googl'ing led me to this post: http://weblogs.asp.net/danhub/archive/2004/11/19/267035.aspx

Interesting to see it determined that WebDav poses a security risk unless you pay the $19 annually! 

2 Comments

  • The interesting thing though, is GMail is now offering POP3 access to their email service.



    Which does beg the question whether or not the other big 2 free email providers (Hotmail and Yahoo) will follow suit.



    I doubt hotmail will, however, I think there is a chance Yahoo might. They did offer pop3 access a few years ago, from memory.

  • Hi William... yeh, the fact that GMail have allowed it makes Hotmail's timing seem interesting.

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