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HotForward is a free system tray application that runs in the background and forwards – 1) e-mail messages from multiple MSN Hotmail or Microsoft Live Mail e-mail accounts, or 2) e-mail messages or local files of any type from your computer – to any other e-mail account of choice.

Please Note: Microsoft is now enforcing a policy that only members with paid subscription accounts and members with accounts older than 2004 may access Hotmail using the WebDAV protocol such as HotForward.

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Requirements

Java Get Powered It is developed using 100% Java and may run on any operating system (Windows, Unix, Mac OS, etc.) that has the Java Runtime (JRE) 6 installed.

You would want to use HotForward...

  • If you would like your preferred ISP or web based e-mail account as storage for your local files (Outbox Feature).
  • You don't like using MSN Hotmail or Microsoft Live Mail and would prefer reading all your e-mails under some other e-mail service like Google Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, or your ISP's e-mail account, etc.
  • If you want to check your Microsoft e-mails using desktop based e-mail clients that do not support MSN Hotmail access like Mozilla Thurderbird, etc.
  • You'd like to read your Hotmail on your mobile device.
  • Just because you felt like it :-)

Features

  • (Outbox Feature) Supports forwarding files of any type from your computer for storage/archival purposes. To enable this feature, just add an account called "outbox"
  • (Outbox Feature) Supports forwarding raw e-mail message files from your computer
  • Supports unlimited Hotmail or Live Mail accounts
  • Retains original e-mail headers and content
  • Does not require an SMTP account, although an SMTP connection can be set up.
  • Runs in the system tray
  • Developed using 100% Java
  • Runs on Windows, Mac OS, Unix and others
  • Easy to use

Open Source Libraries Used

  • JDAVMail: A JavaMail implementation of the WebDAV protocol used by MSN Hotmail to retrieve e-mail messages.

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