On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:10:44PM +0530, Suneil Ramesh wrote:
> Is there a text based mail program for linux which can
> access HTTP mailboxes (like hotmail).
AFAIK, there are none. You can access some of the servers
using things like 'curl' to negotiate the passwords and
cookies. You'd have to do your own r&d for each server
for yourself and write the scripts ... There used to be a
perl script on the net called 'gotmail' using curl as the
engine ... I have written a bash script for rediff, based
on curl to do the actual work.
>
> Also I would like to text based messenger and chat (in-
> cluding chatroom) for yahoo. I tried Ari, Yahoonix and
> Chimmy but none of them compiled properly.
>
These may need ncurses development libraries, otherwise no
other problems should arise ... ari-yahoo is a single file
and you can run it from anywhere. No need for make install
BTW, it sucks big time ...
Can send you a statically compiled copy of ari-yahoo as a
tarball in personal mail.
I have not tried the others.
> Usually I install programs by changing the install dir-
> ectory to ~ ( since I don't have root privileges) in the
> configure file but Yahoonix doesn't have this file.
Not all sources have .configure. In these, you need to
tinker the Makefile directly.
> The others gave errors like [all recursive] ***
> [snprintf.] etc. I would be grateful if somenoe could
> tell me where I am going wrong.
>
snprintf and vsnprintf are for formatted output conversion
and is a part of gcc with its own man page. Don't know
why this should throw up any error.
HTH
Bish.
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