Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:45:45 +0000 From: "S Roberts" <sroberts84@hotmail.com> To: anders@hack.org, marcus@marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Evolution <- Hotmail Message-ID: <F26gNjWOiy54DgI6bXm0002136c@hotmail.com>
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Hello,
Thank you both for taking the time to reply.
I'll look some more into the Gotmail option, and see how I get on.
Thanks again.
Stacey
>From: Anders Andersson <anders@hack.org>
>To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
>CC: S Roberts <sroberts84@hotmail.com>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Evolution <- Hotmail
>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:55:10 +0100
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>From anders@sushi.sanyusan.se Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:57:08 -0800
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>On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:00:20PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, S Roberts wrote:
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > > Sorry if this is the wrong forum - I'm new to Gnome and was
>pleased to
> > > see that there is a Gnome dev team for FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > Here's my question. Is it possible to use Evolution to get my email
>from my
> > > Hotmail account? If so, is there some documentation on configuring
>Evolution
> > > accordingly?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the time, and to those who might respond.
> >
> > I've never used Hotmail, but if it supports POP3 or IMAP, then you can
>use
> > Evolution to retrieve the mail. Just follow the online documentation
>for
> > configuring either a POP or IMAP account.
>
>Nope! HotMail uses some HTTP stuff only... I've looked a bit in how
>Outlook Express is able to retrieve hotmail mail and got not much
>smarter after that :-)
>
>I think you should check out /usr/ports/mail/gotmail which is a perl
>script that should be able to retrieve HotMail mail into a local mbox
>and then configure Evolution to use that local mbox for your hotmail.
>Maybe fix a cron script that does it for you as often as you like.
>
>I dont use either evolution nor gotmail, so I might not be a good help.
>--
>Anders Andersson <anders@hack.org>
>UNIX, Networking and Security consultant
>+46 (0)705 87 53 35
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