G'day Vern I don't have any personal experience with Hotmail - however have a look at this http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firebird_:_FAQs_:_Hotmail_Yahoo It looks to me like there may be an extension which would help. Phill Vern wrote: > Phill, > > Do you know if Thunderbird will retrieve mail from Hotmail.com accounts? > > They have something proprietary > > "we have decided to postpone retiring DAV" > > I wonder if Thunderbird can handle the DAV format or whatever that is. > > Vern > > > > >> Sorry Harold - never having used Outlook I don't know exactly what the >> "Preview" does. I can't think of any setting or command which might be >> the equivalent. Maybe you shold try some of the Mozilla sites - there >> are quite a few and they are very good at solving most of these >> "equivalent" questions. >> > > ========================= The list's FAQ's can be seen by sending an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with FAQ in the subject line. To unsubscribe, subscribe, set Digest or Vacation to on or off, go to //www.freelists.org/list/pcworks . You can also send an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with Unsubscribe in the subject line. Your member list settings can be found at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi/l=pcworks . Once logged in, you have access to numerous other email options. The list archives are located at //www.freelists.org/archives/pcworks/ . All email posted to the list will be placed there in the event anyone needs to look for previous posts.