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Date:      Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:21:14 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
Cc:        <listsub@rambo.simx.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Pulling Hotmail email to a workstation FreeBSD machine?
Message-ID:  <20020216211722.Q660-100000@pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <019d01c1b725$ab9d72e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> Roger writes:
>
> > I do not know how its done, and AFAIK, there is
> > no way to do it from any other client.
>
> Hotmail provides some sort of totally proprietary, unpublished HTTP
> interface to its mail system, which Outlook Express understands.
Yes, but it has been hacked - or whatever - by the maintainers of
/usr/ports/mail/gotmail . It *is* slower than fetchmail for POP
accounts , but it works.

Uli.

> It's hokey
> and slow and not very flexible, but that's all there is.  I suppose Hotmail
> wants to force you to see advertisements or something when accessing the
> servers (otherwise, since Hotmail is free, it's hard to see how they would
> generate any revenue).
AFAIK hotmail belongs to M$ .



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