Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:27:02 -0500 (CDT) From: gLaNDix <glandix@lloydix.2y.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can i use pine to recieve hotmail email? Message-ID: <20010915212336.I71227-100000@lloydix.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <20010915212244.A528@moo.holy.cow>
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actually, I don't believe hotmail offers POP3 anymore (in fact, it's been quite a few years since it's offered it for free)... however, HTTPMail works wonderfully to download e-mail from a hotmail account to a local mail spool... it even preserves the headers so you can use procmail to sort all e-mail with 'To: your_acct@hotmail.com' to a seperate folder... here's the url on freshmeat, i don't believe there's a fbsd port: http://freshmeat.net/projects/httpmail/ it has a couple of perl req's iirc, but once you take care of those, it works very well! gLaNDix On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, parv wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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