On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:27:50PM +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Suneil Ramesh wrote:
> 
>  |Is there a text based mail program  for linux which can 
>  |access HTTP mailboxes (like hotmail). 
> 
> There was this script called gotmail that would work like 
> fetchmail and deliver ur hotmail mails to your local mail-
> box (or any other address for that matter)
>

This perl script (gotmail.pl) is hotmail specific. It  uses
curl-ssl as a backend. The script does not work  these days
since M$ frequently starts playing  around  with about five
sets of cookies, which need constant changing, and ofcourse
the SSL layer being added. HotMail is not easy to get.

If you have curl, you may succeed with other HTTP mail ser-
vers. I have made headway for rediffmail using curl :-)
 
>  |Also I would like to text based messenger and chat (inc-
>  |luding chatroom) for yahoo. I  tried  Ari, Yahoonix and 
>  |Chimmy but none of them  compiled properly.
>

You need ncurses development libraries installed.

Bish

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