Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:21:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: <listsub@rambo.simx.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pulling Hotmail email to a workstation FreeBSD machine? Message-ID: <20020216211722.Q660-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <019d01c1b725$ab9d72e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Roger writes: > > > I do not know how its done, and AFAIK, there is > > no way to do it from any other client. > > Hotmail provides some sort of totally proprietary, unpublished HTTP > interface to its mail system, which Outlook Express understands. Yes, but it has been hacked - or whatever - by the maintainers of /usr/ports/mail/gotmail . It *is* slower than fetchmail for POP accounts , but it works. Uli. > It's hokey > and slow and not very flexible, but that's all there is. I suppose Hotmail > wants to force you to see advertisements or something when accessing the > servers (otherwise, since Hotmail is free, it's hard to see how they would > generate any revenue). AFAIK hotmail belongs to M$ . *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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