HOWTO: Use micro$oft's Live mail B3ta on Linux

Ian_Hawdon · 07-29-2006, 11:21 AM

When trying to access the new Windows Live mail on linux using firefox 1.5.0.4 i get the message i need firefox 1.5 to use Live mail!

WTF? can't you see i am using 1.5?!?

Then it hit me (ow!) The browser info say Linux-i686 in it, I bet live mail is programmed to be used ONLY on windows!

But the answer is simple, install the firefox extention "User Agent Switcher" and add this:

Code:

Description: Firefox 1.5.0.4 (Windows Server 2003)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060527 Firefox/1.5.0.4
App Name: Firefox
App Version: 5.0 (en-GB)
Platform: Win32

Apply this new setting, and clear your cache (actually i dont know if that is nessesery, but I think you may need to clear out the rubbish in there!)

Log in to hotmail (live mail beta)

Enjoy your rubbish account as if you were running that other OS!

XavierP · 07-30-2006, 06:19 AM

You could do the same thing on Konqueror by adjusting the agent switcher. No need for a plugin

justanothersteve · 07-30-2006, 10:09 AM

This topic has an odd sense of sacrilege to it

Glad to see this actually. I've still got a few friends that can't seem to register the phrase "Please email me at <email>, I only use <hotmail> for online forms and messenger" so I've still got to check hotmail periodically to keep in touch with some of them.

Ian_Hawdon · 07-31-2006, 05:51 AM

I would move away from Hotmail (actually anything microsoft) but it is the fact that, i then can't use an IM to talk to people as they wont switch to other IM clients that are not M$ based!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Some person who wont switch

I like MSN, it looks good and has many pointless features like, nudges and "winks"

Yeah and 7 years ago you could get logged in with in 2 seconds, then micro$oft switched from UNIX servers to Win2000 servers. It all goes slowly down hill from there!

hand of fate · 07-31-2006, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ian_Hawdon

When trying to access the new Windows Live mail on linux using firefox 1.5.0.4 i get the message i need firefox 1.5 to use Live mail!

WTF? can't you see i am using 1.5?!?

Line mail is still a beta product, so it might not do everything correctly first time. If you're using the correct browser and it's failing to recognise it, you should send feedback to say that it's not working properly.

nx5000 · 07-31-2006, 09:50 AM

Quote:

I like MSN

You shouldn't..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Messenger

Closed protocol that is using a fully-centralized architecture... Your discussions go through Microsoft's servers so they can intercept, listen and censor what they want.

ethics · 07-31-2006, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nx5000

You shouldn't..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Messenger

Closed protocol that is using a fully-centralized architecture... Your discussions go through Microsoft's servers so they can intercept, listen and censor what they want.

If they're american it's a bit of a mute point really, since all other forms of communication are monitored (Bush blocked investigation into NSA wiretaps anyone?), cause of them damn terrorists hiding everywhere.

MSN does like changing it's protocol though, which really annoys me, so chances are using a 3rd party app that handles multiple protocols, will at various points become broken.

Ian_Hawdon · 08-09-2006, 04:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hand of fate

Line mail is still a beta product, so it might not do everything correctly first time. If you're using the correct browser and it's failing to recognise it, you should send feedback to say that it's not working properly.

I still think the Live Mail server is programmed to look for Wimbloze PCs, it may be last minute before they allow *nix users to access it!

hand of fate · 08-09-2006, 07:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nx5000

You shouldn't..

Who were you quoting? There's no username associated with your quote, and I can't find the line you quoted anywhere in any of the posts in this thread!

Ian_Hawdon · 08-09-2006, 02:47 PM

lol, he's quoting my sarcastic comments!

nx5000 · 08-10-2006, 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethics

If they're american it's a bit of a mute point really, since all other forms of communication are monitored (Bush blocked investigation into NSA wiretaps anyone?)

A bit more sarcasm:

That's true, but isn't London the capital where there are the more cameras per inhabitants?
(which has recently been proven to be useless compared to the money it costed)

So, what's the best? Online spying or real spying? US or England?

I'll go to Mars soon