[plug] HTTP mail?

[John Knight]

Aha! Where I was once blind, I now see! I noticed that Outlook express will 
let you acces your hotmail account. I was looking under the help pages under 
hotmail to see what it said on how to access your messages under Outlook, it 
said to choose HTTP from the list if POP3, IMAP, etc. I've heard that 
there's a specail hotmail protocol, am I right?

Either way, I'd like ot give up the browser interface and go to a fetcher 
programme. For any other hotmail users out there, try it using Galeon with 
the images disabled, much better.....

>
>On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 23:07, John Knight wrote:
> > Hey up!
> > Anyone know of any mail fetching proggies that can use an HTTP protocol? 
>I'm
> > hoping to get away with something like KMail, but if need be, I'll 
>resort to
> > the command line. ;)
>
>???
>
>please explain?  HTTP is not a mail protocol.  What are you trying to do
>that you want to fetch mail via http?  In my experience, most places
>that serve mail via the web either require that you log in to get to it
>via a web browser, or provide pop/imap access?  Since the web-based mail
>browsers that I've used and setup (and written) use imap to get mail, I
>imagine that this is generally the case.  So, if you're using a
>web-based mail service, they probably also have an imap mail server
>somewhere there.


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