Email that can handle Hotmail

[Paule]

I'm looking for an email program that can retrieve messages from Hotmail.com (like outlook express) . I have tried Mozilla mail and Evolution 1.4, but neither can do Http based email. Any suggestions ?





Thnks in advance

[tomaw]

[tom@tawesley]~$ emerge -S hotmail
Searching...
[ Results for search key : hotmail ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* net-mail/gotmail-0.7.10
Latest version available: 0.7.10
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/gotmail/
Description: Utility to download mail from a HotMail account

I haven't used this recently, but it worked when I did 9-12 months ago.
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Tom Wesley

[Paule]

Thnaks so much.. it worked perfectly.. (I keep forgetting about the search capibitilities of qpkg). Now I just have to find a graphical front end to it.

[digicosm]

[ralph]

you could also give hotwayd a try.

http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net/

[syscrash]

[#!]

You don't need a graphical frontend, it's supposed to work in the background. You just set it to run when you want it(cron?) or run it by hand(it's configuration is self explanatory) and then read the mail you get. I've been using it for ages. It's worth subscribing to the mailing list though because when hotmail change their format it breaks, so you need to be up to date
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[shm]

I personally have found hotwayd more reliable than gotmail over the last few months.. both are decent though