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Old 09-03-2009   #1 (permalink)


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Hotmail DAV protocol retired; affects Outlook, OE, Entourage

By Emil Protalinski |

As expected, Microsoft has retired its Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) protocol for grabbing e-mails from Windows Live Hotmail. DAV is being pushed aside in favor of DeltaSync, which works more efficiently with large inboxes (Hotmail offers a storage space scheme that increases the space available as the need arises). E-mails will still be accessible via Hotmail.com; this change only affects offline e-mail clients. Microsoft says users can expect an improvement in speed and efficiency once they stop using DAV.

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Hotmail DAV protocol retired; affects Outlook, OE, Entourage - Ars Technica

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Old 09-04-2009   #2 (permalink)


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Re: Hotmail DAV protocol retired; affects Outlook, OE, Entourage

This explains why I had to re-configure my wife's Hotmail account in Outlook.

Thanks for the post, with all the spyware floating aroound, it's nice to know why I had to make the change...
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Old 09-04-2009   #3 (permalink)


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Re: Hotmail DAV protocol retired; affects Outlook, OE, Entourage

I'm glad that it helped you.
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