[plug] HTTP mail?

[proXy]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 16:18, John Knight wrote:
> 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. ;)

There is a program called 'gotmail' that can download mail from hotmail
and put it into an mbox format. That mbox can be whatever you want, or
even fed to procmail... etc... When I was using hotmail I used to have
it fed into my mail spool.

The issue with using 'HTTP' to get your mail is that as far as I know,
there is no actual RFC to do it. You could figure out the Hotmail one
with tcpdumping, I imagine it's very similar to POP3 really.

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