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Date:      Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:02:37 +0100
From:      "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        S Roberts <sroberts84@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pulling Hotmail email to a workstation FreeBSD machine?
Message-ID:  <3C6E748D.8080303@rambo.simx.org>
References:  <20020216155253.L193-100000@pukruppa.de>

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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


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