Hotmail connection issue.

[zimnot so great]

LOL I love the way you keep getting the advice you need to upgrade your hotmail acount to a plus acount. As you point out other email clients can access hotmail and leave a copy of the mail there. I use a simple email program called pop peeper and it manages no problem so whats wrong with the Zimbra developers are they not very clever?

[k.electron]

Originally Posted by zimnot so great

LOL I love the way you keep getting the advice you need to upgrade your hotmail acount to a plus acount. As you point out other email clients can access hotmail and leave a copy of the mail there. I use a simple email program called pop peeper and it manages no problem so whats wrong with the Zimbra developers are they not very clever?

i dont think it is an intelligence issue. it is possible and easy to implement the requested feature. i think the issue here is
firstly - oversight - zimbra devs did not bother to see what was required
secondly - poor priorities - once found, they have shoved this issue under the carpet expecting it to go away and
thirdly - extremely poor customer service - after being brought to light on multiple occasions they have decided to simply ignore the worlds most popular email provider

i have personally stopped recommending zimbra to anyone because i dont feel good vibes coming from the product. its like they dont care about me, and i would rather not support something that doesn't give a damn.

[rcorn]

I just paid the $20 to get Hotmail Plus and I still couldn't use Zimbra without going thru the Pop3 set up. The problem with that is that none of my Hotmail sub-folders are available to me in Zimbra. So, I can't get my pre-existing emails into Zimbra and I can't have a mirror copy of my e-mail on Hotmail's servers. So, if I lose my harddrive, all my e-mail is gone. This can't be right, can it?

[k.electron]

welcome to the club.

yes u cannot store email on the server and the hard drive in the case of hotmail.

thats because zimbra's pop implementation is made of fail.

[rcorn]

it's a bummer. would have been cool. i downloaded zimbra because i wanted to get away from hotmail's cookies that they kept dumping on my machine to serve ads. at least the $20 gets me away from that part of the problem.

[k.electron]

any news on this? or still the same?

[Curlin]

Wow

The lack of responses here from the Zimbra Project is unbelievable and frankly "Brutal"

My only guess is unfortunately, maybe Zimbra is no longer able to view things openly like "Thunderbird" does.

Let me give you a run down on my observations so far:

Windows Live Mail Client - full access to my free accounts "Hotmail" & "AOL" with sync features. "NO", i repeat, "NO ACCESS WHATSOEVER" to my free Yahoo account. "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm"

Thunderbird - full access to my free accounts "Hotmail" & "AOL" with sync features. "NO", i repeat, "NO ACCESS WHATSOEVER" to my free Yahoo account. "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm"

Zimbra Desktop (bought by Yahoo)- OMG, i have full access to my free "Yahoo" account with sync. "AOL" too. However, with my free "Hotmail" account, i can only receive email. "NO SYNC" and i "CAN'T" even send an email! "Hmmmmmmmmmmm"

I don't understand . Free Hotmail works fine in Thunderbird.

"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"

[Hivos]

For what it's worth: there's been quite some activity on this related bug in ZCS 6. It's only been partly fixed, but at least they're working on it.

[Curlin]

Thanks for showing me that.

Even though i've just started using ZD, i can understand the frustration hotmail users are experiencing with this and after reading through the entire thread, it's obviously been a problem for quite some time. Is it asking so much from someone in the Zimbra circle to pop in here once in awhile for a few minutes to just say we understand your frustration and are still working on a solution so please just be patient?

I guess it is

[k.electron]

tried 1.0.4 build 1833 on my VM recently to see if anything changed, but it hasn't.

i am yet to come across a company with poorer customer support.