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need help desperately! by blaxez on 01-19-2005 at 06:16 AM

i have a problem here, I am using msn messenger 7.0.045 and the msn 9 premium. Every time I click the check email button in msn messenger, the msn 9 browser automatically pops out and use up much of my system resources. Anyone here knows how to solve my problem so that I can continue checking email using IE?

note: I need to use msn 9 premium software as my family members need that.

Thanx a lot anyway..

RE: need help desperately! by Wabz on 01-19-2005 at 11:00 AM

I think Stuffplug allows you to select what you'd like to open your mail with,  have a look at www.stuffplug.com

RE: need help desperately! by blaxez on 01-19-2005 at 02:27 PM

I have tried be4, it still launches the msn browser...

RE: need help desperately! by Sunshine on 01-19-2005 at 03:40 PM

Taken from hotmail site:
If you purchase a subscription service such as MSN Hotmail Plus or MSN Premium, you get access to your account from Outlook or Outlook Express, along with many other added features.

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So you could set Plus! up to check it as pop3 e-mail (plus > preferences > POP3 e-mail). After you've set that up try if filling in the addy of your e-mailinbox (on the web) after "E-mail client or link:" helps.

Edit: i can't test it myself but would appreciate it if you let us know if that worked.

RE: need help desperately! by matty on 01-19-2005 at 05:56 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Sunshine
Taken from hotmail site:
If you purchase a subscription service such as MSN Hotmail Plus or MSN Premium, you get access to your account from Outlook or Outlook Express, along with many other added features.

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So you could set Plus! up to check it as pop3 e-mail (plus > preferences > POP3 e-mail). After you've set that up try if filling in the addy of your e-mailinbox (on the web) after "E-mail client or link:" helps.

Edit: i can't test it myself but would appreciate it if you let us know if that worked.

For all of my hotmail accounts I haven't purchased a thing and they all work in Outlook Express. So I am not sure what the difference is... I know the 3 are not POP3 accounts but meh whatever.
RE: need help desperately! by Sunshine on 01-19-2005 at 06:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
For all of my hotmail accounts I haven't purchased a thing and they all work in Outlook Express. So I am not sure what the difference is... I know the 3 are not POP3 accounts but meh whatever.
From hotmail help:
Cannot access my free Hotmail account from Outlook or Outlook Express:
This topic is not available for MSN HotmailSympatico Mail.
To protect our users from the increasing amount of unsolicited junk e-mail or spam sent from MSN HotmailSympatico Mail accounts through Outlook and Outlook Express, we have reluctantly had to restrict the new use of Outlook and Outlook Express to subscribers.

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You prolly have signed up before they decided to stop supporting it for free hotmail accounts...

Found on another site/forum:
Hotmail accounts created before that date (nov 2004?) can still use Outlook or Outlook Express to access Hotmail until sometime in either March or April of this year (2005). Unless you pay for the service.

Anyways the prob is blaxez wants to go around the standard browser that comes with MSN Premium to open hotmail, maybe setting it up as pop3 in plus! works. I don't know if clicking it will open up IE (if set to open it on the net). If not maybe some extra command in the programfield is needed to make it do so.

RE: need help desperately! by blaxez on 01-20-2005 at 06:43 AM

but is there any method like editing the registry or patch msn messenger? 

RE: need help desperately! by tralala on 01-20-2005 at 01:00 PM

quote:
Originally posted by blaxez
i have a problem here, I am using msn messenger 7.0.045 and the msn 9 premium. Every time I click the check email button in msn messenger, the msn 9 browser automatically pops out and use up much of my system resources. Anyone here knows how to solve my problem so that I can continue checking email using IE?

note: I need to use msn 9 premium software as my family members need that.

If you set IE to be your default browser, then messenger uses it to open your email. I think you can select it in the preferences (or something) of IE. And of course you can still use msn9p, only it is not the default browser anymore. (hope this also works with msn9p, cause i did this for netscape ;))
RE: need help desperately! by Sunshine on 01-20-2005 at 01:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by blaxez
but is there any method like editing the registry or patch msn messenger?
Nope, the problem is that the MSN browser is your default browser as tralala stated in her post. MSN tends to use IE when you click links..that's one of the reasons why i thought of setting it up as POP3 mail (maybe with a reference to start up IE in programfield).
RE: need help desperately! by blaxez on 01-21-2005 at 01:19 AM

but if I set it to pop 3, it'll launch the default mail client, not the IE..

RE: need help desperately! by CookieRevised on 01-21-2005 at 01:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Sunshine
that's one of the reasons why i thought of setting it up as POP3 mail (maybe with a reference to start up IE in programfield).
But you can't check hotmail with a POP3 service; Hotmail doesn't support POP3...
And I can't find anything (recent) about Premium supporting POP3 either.
^^ looking further into this as we speak... erm... post... :D...

from Neowin
quote:
Update 2: MSN Premium accounts with @msn.com .NET Passport can use the following server:
POP3: pop3.email.msn.com
SMTP: smtp.email.msn.com
from other various sources
quote:
POP3 = pop3hot.com
SMTP = mx1.hotmail.com
and others:
POP3: mail.pop3hot.com
SMTP: mail.pop3hot.com
And many other posts which all contradict eachother (some posts tell you it works, others tell you it doesn't)... Although, I can't find anything official related to POP3 and Hotmail (Premium), which is very strange if Hotmail Premium would support POP3.




quote:
Originally posted by Sunshine
Nope, the problem is that the MSN browser is your default browser as tralala stated in her post. MSN tends to use IE when you click links..
Indeed

Blaxez, MSN Messenger uses your default browser (when the browser is reconized by MSN Messenger that is) to open your mails with. So if you want to use MSIE for that, you need to set MSIE as your default browser.
RE: need help desperately! by blaxez on 01-22-2005 at 02:36 AM

I have tried tat already, it seems MSN explorer has been integrated into IE, so everytime when I click the button, it still launches MSN explorer..

RE: need help desperately! by Hank on 01-22-2005 at 03:17 AM

i have a female friend :)  that uses MSN Premium, ISP,  an im pretty sure by using it, you can only use Microsoft Software on it,  bit like AOL 9 or whatever it is now, 

RE: need help desperately! by blaxez on 01-22-2005 at 10:39 AM

but I just want to check my mail from msn messenger using IE.