[imp] Horde/Imp CVS multiple account option question

Eric Rostetter eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu
Fri Dec 6 19:02:57 2002


Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Quoting Cedric Tardif <sysadmin@destination.ca>:
> 
> > I was just wondering if you will in the futur implement http protocol for
> > mail, so our user will be able to get there hotmail.com or caramail.com
> > mail ?
> 
> "HTTP protocol for mail" is a complete joke. MS has back-door, hacked in
> support for hotmail to let MS desktop programs access it; it's not in their
> interest to let anything else get at it, and the only way to do it is
> painful screen-scraping. If you'd like to implement this, we'd take a
> cleanly written patch.

Can't you just use the fetchmail pop3/imap routines instead to acces
the mail from hotmail et al?
 
-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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