Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:50:09 -0500 From: Geoff Wright <wrightg@mcmaster.ca> 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: <20020216154936.JMTZ12383.tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net@there> In-Reply-To: <3C6E748D.8080303@rambo.simx.org> References: <20020216155253.L193-100000@pukruppa.de> <3C6E748D.8080303@rambo.simx.org>
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Hi, There is a perl script called gotmail that will help you do what you want: Check out this website. http://www.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.html I have had a little bit of trouble getting it to login to the hotmail server...but by the end of the weekend I should be there... Good luck. geoff On Saturday 16 February 2002 10:02 am, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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