Comment 39 for bug 327773

I am not sure if it is like IMAP. However it is NOT agood adea to have
everything on the remote server. Hotmail boxes fill VERY quickly. point 1 in my
suggestion is the easist interface to use, however it has less power than point
2. It turns out that outlook express treats hotmail accounts like they are a
usenet account not only in the fact that you 'subscibe' to your folders but also
in the way that it only downloads headers untill you want to read the message.
IHMO this is not the way to go. All outlook express is really doing is provide a
new 'skin' to the web inteface via the httpmail protocol.

Also for point 2, I suggest that sent items folder be downloaded into the
corisponding local folder by default to save space on the server.

Speeking of MSN Explorer could anybody with a 'real' msn account or with hotmail
'extra storage' place a proxy between MSN Explorer and the internet and see what
protocol MSN explorer is using to access hotmail email form the internet in it's
 e-mail client? MSN explorer is availible at http://explorer.msn.com/.
I doubt it is using HTTPmail because microsoft dubs that 'beta' and certain
features may not work correctly. It seams unlikely that it uses a curl like
meathod, so it could be doing one of 3 things: using undocumented pop3, imap, or
possibly yet annother microsoft invented protocol. If it is using an imap or
pop3 protocol in the background then it is just a matter of figuring out what
server and what special authentication system it is using.