Hotmail-to-Linux forwarding utility sought

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

I think that like yahoo, they charge for POP3 access.  I know that you can 'sign up for hotmail' if you're using Outlook Express, and it will fetch your mail via pop3, but it might be a outlook only thing.  Its been a while since I've touched hotmail, and it suprises me to see a linux user using it when there are many other free and non-microsoft mail systems.

http://www.btinternet.com/~fnarr.fnarr4019/getwmail.html

Last released version 8/03.  So its atleast maintained, maybe he's working on a fix for the new hotmail changes.. 

If you were using yahoo, you could use yosucker, which has very active development.  It supports multiple accounts, ssl login, and lots of other nifty features.

http://yosucker.sourceforge.net/


-miah

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:41:17AM -0500, nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:24:18AM -0500, Rich Braun wrote:
> > The good folks at Hotmail redesigned their screens this past weekend, at a
> > time when crackers took a handful of download sites offline for days on end.
> > 
> > For a few months I've been using a nifty curl-based script called 'gotmail' to
> > pull mail off the hotmail server to my Linux box, but it died this week and
> > due to the site-cracking and to apparent lack of maintenance by the developer,
> > I can't get a new version.
> > 
> > I don't really want to go under the hood and redesign gotmail.  Anyone have an
> > alternative way of polling hotmail under Linux?  Site admins at this big email
> > sites won't let you configure a forwarding address so the only way to
> > consolidate mail into one place is to poll it via html or pop3.
> 
> If hotmail really supports pop3 (I guess they're kinder than Yahoo),
> fetchmail should do the trick. It fetches via imap or pop and forwards
> into your local mailer.
> 
> Nathan
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