Apples and oranges here. Hotmail is an online web mail service. You have to sign up for the service with a user name and password, and an email address. Messenger is part of the Netscape package, and is a real email reader. It will collect email from any POP server or intranet, using the user name and password that your work clients have chosen/been assigned, as long as Messenger is configured for it. 2 totally different things.
If a person wants to collect email from any computer in any location, they can get a Hotmail address and access it from any browser. However, the sender has to _send_ to that address. They could not collect "intranet" mail using Hotmail. Hotmail is NOT an email reader for anything but itself. There are other web mail services that you can get addresses for also. Hotmail is just one of them. I understand that one CAN configure OE to pick up Hotmail messages (they're owned by the same company). Sue At 11:33 AM 12/19/2002 -0900, Lee Ross wrote >PCWorkers, > >At work, we are on an intranet and the email program we use is >Netscape Messenger. I believe it's v.4.78. I set each person up with >a "profile" so they are able to use their own preferences. The system >works flawlessly and it is leaps and bounds above the old "green >screen" program we were using. > >Naturally, we have one person that has to be critical of this new >system. He keeps making reference to Messenger as being "just another >hotmail account" but has no explanation what hotmail account means. > >I've heard of hotmail accounts but was never involved in using one. >What are they, why are they good, bad or indifferent? Any input would >be appreciated. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
