From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 16 7: 2:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [194.17.208.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA8E37B400 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 07:02:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.simx.org (johndoe@rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.simx.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1GF2cZ08208; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 15:02:38 GMT (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3C6E748D.8080303@rambo.simx.org> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:02:37 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" Reply-To: listsub@rambo.simx.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Cc: S Roberts , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pulling Hotmail email to a workstation FreeBSD machine? References: <20020216155253.L193-100000@pukruppa.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, S Roberts wrote: > > >>Hello All, >> I've got a newbie question here, sorry if this sounds blasphemous. >> >>Is there any way I can pull my Hotmail email down to my FreeBSD 4.5 Stable >>machine? >> >>I've had a Hotmail account for over five years now, that has proved very >>useful to me in the past, and I'd like to know is this is possible (I'm >>using Gnome with Netscape / Mozilla) in the same way as its possible with >>Outlook Express. >> > Yes, you call Mozilla's mail client and tell it your pop3 account > and the address of your smtp server. Exactly like in > OutlookExpress. > > Regards, > > Uli. > Hotmail does not provide POP3 nor SMTP. Outlook Express does however have a feature that lets you check hotmail from your mailclient. I do not know how its done, and AFAIK, there is no way to do it from any other client. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message