From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 15 19:20:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039AB37B407 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earthlink.net (sdn-ar-007dcwashP297.dialsprint.net [63.178.90.163]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11082; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by earthlink.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 77ABF50CED; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:22:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:22:44 -0400 From: parv To: Oscar Castaneda Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can i use pine to recieve hotmail email? Message-ID: <20010915212244.A528@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Oscar Castaneda , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010915085405.C28567-100000@pukruppa.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010915085405.C28567-100000@pukruppa.de>; from root@pukruppa.de on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:12:19AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this was, on the fateful occasion around Sep 15 03:12 -0400, sent by P. U. (Uli) Kruppa > > Hi Oscar! > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Oscar Castaneda wrote: > > > ...i was wondering if i could use pine to > > check/download email stored in my hotmail account?? > > First of all you have to find out, if hotmail offers a > POP3-service (Most Internet Service Providers do, if not take > yahoo.com or any other). POP3 is a protocol that allows your > computer to download emails from remote machines. Your ISP > will give you his POP3-adress (something like > pop.hotmail.com or so). > > When you have got that and you really want to use > (the very fast, but not so nice to look at) pine, you have > to install fetchmail (/usr/ports/mail/fetchmail) first. > ... just something to think about... oscar, when you are done w/ basic setup (fetchmail, pop3/imap server access, postfix, procmail, etc.), you may want to use ssh(1) to retrieve mail if ISP provides ssh access in addition to mail. the only reason that i use ssh to fetch mail so that login password isn't sent in clear. just try tcpdump(1). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message