Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:32:00 +0000 From: "S Roberts" <sroberts84@hotmail.com> To: root@pukruppa.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: Pulling Hotmail email to a workstation FreeBSD machine? Message-ID: <F211shCalJWZWQ4cNmo00009293@hotmail.com>
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Thanks guys,
I knew that Hotmail didn't offer POP3 services inasmuch as to allow
users to get their mail off their servers, hence my original question.
I'll grab a hold of gotmail from ports and see how it goes.
Thanks again for the assistance.
Stacey
>From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
>To: S Roberts <sroberts84@hotmail.com>
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>Subject: re: Pulling Hotmail email to a workstation FreeBSD machine?
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>On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
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> > 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.
>VERY SORRY about this!!!
>I just remembered having read something about pop accounts in
>hotmail. They meant you can read other pop3 accounts from
>hotmail.
>
>But you can install the port
>/usr/ports/mail/gotmail
>
>With this a perl script you can download from your hotmail
>account like this:
>
># gotmail -u your_username -p your_password -f
>your_FreeBSD_username
>
>
>Regards
>
>Uli.
>
>
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