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by pooriaazimi 5102 days ago
But if you forward it to say Gmail, then you count as a user (Gmail pings Hotmail for you).
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Establishing a connection and doing the full successful authentication through a client, pop, or web counts as a login.

Incoming mail or a simple ping to the mail server won't counted as a user view. With all the spam, fake mails, and mail bomb pings, views would then report bajillions of hits and nothing would expire.