On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:05:24AM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If squirrelmail doesen't have one itself, fetchmail will do the job. > > > > > - can SM be used to retrive email from hotmail account ? > > I did have a client that apparently had a web screen scraping tool to > pickup hotmail mail. There's no convenient pop/imap/uucp access method as > far as I know. The screen scraping method would be very sensitive to > updates of the site's layout and would need to be kept up-to-date. > Essentially it's a targeted web robot.
The Hotmail function in Outlook / Outlook Express apparently uses something called HTTPMail, which is a protocol that uses DAV as a transport. Searching freshmeat for "hotmail" will turn up a number of implementations, both fetchmail-style retrieval tools and POP3 proxies. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
