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From: Geoff Wright <wrightg@mcmaster.ca>
To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Subject: Re: Pulling Hotmail email to a workstation FreeBSD machine?
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:50:09 -0500
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Hi,

There is a perl script called gotmail that will help you do what you want:

Check out this website. 
http://www.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.html

I have had a little bit of trouble getting it to login to the hotmail 
server...but by the end of the weekend I should be there...

Good luck.
geoff


On Saturday 16 February 2002 10:02 am, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
> 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.

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