Thanks... Woo, forums
Hmm, optional sounds good. I don't like it because I don't care about my Hotmail account, it was previously a spam trap out-of-sight, out-of-mind... now it is a spam trap rearing it's ugly head. It didn't use to do this so it was mainly unexpected to me.
Either way, this is still bugged. When the POP3 box is unchecked, it should say 2; it should never say "No new messages" when POP3 is unchecked and there are messages in the Hotmail inbox.