10.4: Read Hotmail with Mail.app on Intel Macs

Jun 08, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: henribehar

I was fed up with having to go to the hotmail website and sign in to be able to view my emails, so I had a look on MacOSXhints and found an old app (HTTPMail Plugin) that works perfectly on non-Intel Macs. Unfortunately when I upgraded to my new MacBook Pro ... my discovery was finished.

After trying several other options (POP services, etc.), I gave up and sat waiting for someone to develop an Intel app. It had been already three months, and I was still sitting so, I had to do something. So I tried a good old trick and it worked!

It is as simple as making Apple's Mail.app work under Rosetta, with the check marked on "Open using Rosetta" on the Get Info dialog, and have the HTTPMail bundle installed in the /Library -> Mail -> Bundles folder. If any one has a better solution, I'd be happy to know about it...

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