Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:12:19 +0200 (CEST) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Oscar Castaneda <oscarcvt@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can i use pine to recieve hotmail email? Message-ID: <20010915085405.C28567-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <F95DCZx4FR0rmTIVvLV00013e63@hotmail.com>
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Hi Oscar! On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Oscar Castaneda wrote: > im using freebsd 4.3-stable, and as a result of overflowing my webmail, > which i do not download in pine i was wondering if i could use pine to > check/download email stored in my hotmail account?? First of all you have to find out, if hotmail offers a POP3-service (Most InternetServiceProviders do, if not take yahoo.com or any other). POP3 is a protocol that allows your computer to download emails from remote machines. Your ISP will give you his POP3-adress (something like pop.hotmail.com or so). When you have got that and you really want to use (the very fast, but not so nice to look at) pine, you have to install fetchmail (/usr/ports/mail/fetchmail) first. Fetchmail is a program that fetches your mail from your POP3-account, so you can read it in pine. It might take some time until you have read all the manuals about fetchmail and configured it. But in the meantime you can go on using your web-mail. Good Luck Uli. > (what the 6_21_3_11 yall might say, but hey i heard hotmail works based on > freebsd, am i wrong?) > > thanks to all, > oscar > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > *--------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | Wuppertal - Germany | *--------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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