Hotmail connection issue.

[k.electron]

Originally Posted by whileworth

I voted for both of those bugs, even though I don't use hotmail.

I wonder does anyone know what the deal is with support here? This thread is a good example of what feels like rather tepid support from zimbra staff. zimbra desktop is so good - I don't really get how it's so good, but feels like it's just creeping along. Maybe zd devs are actively working on bug fixes and revisions, and forum support is just not a priority? I hope this app does not fade out on us.

im pretty sure this app will fade out on us. building a car that wont run on a sizable percentage of roads, and then blaming the roads is a very bad approach. posting in the forums has not yielded anything, and neither has opening those bugzilla issues. this is a massive oversight on the part of zimbra. eventually yahoo will have to offer mail client support if it really wants to stay competitive and then i see thunderbird as the perfect client since it supports everything else too.

[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.