i think microsoft should call it HTTP mail it's confusing mail = open starndard like pop3, smtp, imap HTTP = is the web w3.org but HTTP + mail = microsoft proprietary protocol?
Ben Bucksch wrote: > 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 > >
