{shudder}
Apart from what was saidabove, it gets even worse.
What might not be clear to most people, is that the company used for retreiving mail is a vague company by the name of IzySoft (http://www.izysoft.com/ (funky site, btw)), who I guess can expect to be shut down by either Micorsoft or Yahoo soon?

And the worst part is that your mail outgoing mail is going through a different company (http://www.hotpop.com/), which isn't even trying to do anything with hotmail. They just appear to have their mail-servers set up poorly, allowing anyone to send through them.

again... {shudder}

Hmm, if Hotpop's email servers are being used as open relays, that means spammers are using them as open relays as well. That means one of two things are going to happen:

-Hotpop's mail servers are going to end up on more and more anti-spam blacklists, making it less and less likely that email sent through them will actually reach anyone;

-Hotpop's sysadmins will eventually get a clue and close the relay, meaning people will eventually be unable to send their Hotmail email from their desktops, at least through hotpop's servers.



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