Garth Wallace wrote: > Brian Heinrich wrote: > >> Garth Wallace wrote: >> >>> Brian Heinrich wrote: >>> >>>> Christopher Jahn wrote: >>>> >>>>> And it came to pass that Brian Heinrich wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. URL is http://ufaq.org (just ufaq will send you to >>>>>> a .com site). But downloading AIM just so I can access my >>>>>> Web Mail account is, well, dumb. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It's easier to use AIM to access Webmail's proprietary format than >>>>> to re-write Mozilla Mail to do it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Agreed. >>>> >>>> The comment was more of a fit of pique with AOL/T-W on my part than >>>> anything. Why would I want to download a chat client that's a pain >>>> in the ass to remove fully and completely when no-one I know uses >>>> it? And it's not like I make /that/ much use of my Web Mail account. >>>> >>>> After finding myself using recent Mozilla builds with increasing >>>> regularity, I've pretty much made the switch over. Even on my old >>>> P-200 box, it runs well (unlike, say, NS 6.2.1), and it's ever more >>>> stable. >>>> >>>> Now if only it would support HTTP mail so I could check my Hotmail >>>> account, which is usually so full of spam I can't find any legit >>>> messages. . . . (Yeesh. . . .) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> That's another proprietary protocol. And Microsoft is *really* >>> unlikely to open it up to Mozilla developers, just their own in-house >>> staff who work on Outlook. >>> >> >> True, but at least I can directly access it in Mozilla without having >> to go thro' the log-in process, so that's all right by me, since, as I >> said, it's usually choc-a-bloc with spam. And it's almost quicker to >> do it that way than to have OE check it, so I'm not complaining. >> >> But I'll ask the question I didn't ask before: are there HTTP mail >> services that might be accessible thro' Mozilla? Of the two with >> which I have any acquaintance, Hotmail is proprietary, and canada.com >> seems not to support that kind of access. . . . > > > I think most webmail providers do just what it sounds like--allow access > to email over the web (i.e. through webpages and CGI). Some may also > allow access through the standard email protocols: POP3 (or IMAP) and > SMTP. Funky nonstandard mail protocols are fortunately rare. >
About what I figured. Still, I thought it was worth asking. . . . Thanks. — Brian -- ‘We have seen the enemy and he is us’ — Walt Kelly’s Pogo
