[muglo] Re: Outlook Express problems (& anti-competitive behaviour) (was no subject)

>From: Jim Taylor <hawk@xxxxxxxx>
>Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:44:34 -0400
>
>
>A problem. My e-mail (outlook express) crashed . . . or something. I keep
>getting dialogue box that says my identity or password is wrong. It
>happened once before a while ago and I simply restarted the computer and
>all was well. This time nothing I do seems to work. I have learned it has
>nothing to do with my ISP. Anybody any suggestions? jim

It's a cool piece of software (so much more useful than Netscrape e-mail but 
it could handle a bit of a bug fix) but there are hazards to using Outlook 
Express :(  For what e-mail address (service?) are you getting these 
problems? Have you tried re-entering the password? Sometimes, OE and Eudora 
will "forget" the password if the e-mail server is down.

BTW Hotmail is down for Mac OE and Outlook Express 2001 users!!! I normally 
use OE 5.02 to collect the e-mail from this account, and, for the 
foreseeable future that is no longer possible. On the 25th M$ installed a 
"security" update that prevents Mac versions of OE 5.02 and Outlook Express 
2001 from collecting "Hotmail" e-mail. It seems the workaround for the 
moment is to log-in to Hotmail using a webbrowser (and, unless you're 
running Netscrape 6.1 it better be a Microsloth browser or it'll take you a 
year to see the page... see the link below).

The following URL confirms my suspicions that M$ was engineering their 
Hotmail service to work poorly on non-M$ browsers. Time for M$ to be split 
apart into Baby Microsofts as happened with the Baby Bells!

<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098840,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02>

Eric.

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