All, what he means is that Mozilla Mailnews should be able to retrieve mail from Hotmail.
I think, he doesn't realize that Microsoft owns Hotmail. Microsoft decided to oppose open-source, so if we try to support Hotmail via HTTP, they will just change the webpage all the time so that our parser (which gets the mail out of the webpage etc.) breaks. Also, Hotmail uses MS Passport, and we're likely to encounter problems there, too. Do you know that Netscape 6 Mail supports webmail accounts from webmail.netscape.com, just like OE supports Hotmail? Chris Lee wrote: > I personaly think mozilla should step out of the protocol issue, and > use protocols for waht they were intended I agree. Which, for me, means that we do not support webmail in Mailnews. There are enough freemail / webmail accounts offering POP or even IMAP access. If you really want to use hotmail, use a standalone server on your system, which translates between the hotmal webpages and POP, just like Michael Klose reports. > In mozilla terms you have a UI and mail handler but the protocols used > to deliver and receive mail are abstracted so that if you have a > server that gives you mail via http so be it its just a new 'language' > plug in. > After all mail is mail no matter how you got or sent it. Apart from the fact that Mozilla Mailnews is already designed the way you describe - after all, it supports POP, IMAP, news, Unix mailboxes, AOL mail (proprietary) and Netscape Webmail (proprietary). The protocols *are* already "pluggable". But what you say here seems to be the exact opposite of what you say above. Ben Bucksch
