RE: Hotmail and Linux - Problem Unsolved

[Karan Girotra <karan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, you wrote:
hye,
i have been able to connect to hotmail evryday for the last 10 months using
netscape 4.51 on linux. have faced absolutely no problems .  
i guess the problem is with the security settings of your browser as hotmail
has made the process of sending the username and password encrypted . and all
the other sites u try to acces may not be using encryption 
hope ur problem is finally resolved 


>> 
>> thanks for the response.
>> all these have been tried.
>> 
>> i can get hotmail from win98. so, hotmail is quite fine.
>> from linux, i'm able to access every other site, but hotmail.
>
>I continue to maintain that I have no problems at all getting through to
>hotmail if I go via www.msn.com, using any browser under any OS, including
>Windows, Linux and BeOS.
>
>There are issues involving www.hotmail.com, and they have been around for
>a while. One thing I suspect is that Microsoft is killing the name
>"hotmail" in favour of its own MSN. It may also be making hotmail IE5
>specific.
>
>Atul
>
>
>
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