[imp] Retrieving Hotmail Emails

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jack Bertram <jack at jbertram.net>:

> Check out gotmail
>
> www.nongnu.org/gotmail
>
> * Dave Breiland <superdave at dynamicis.com> [040210 22:33]:
>> I'm pretty sure it is possible, as SpamCop (www.spamcop.net) has 
>> this feature for their paid subscribers.  My guess is that they use 
>> a third-party commercial software to do it on the backend.
>>

>> >I am getting some customers requesting a way to retreive their hotmail
>> >emails into IMP.  There doesn't seem to be an option in hotmail to forward
>> >to their local email address.  I'm hoping someone has developed a way to
>> >retrieve hotmail emails from either inside IMP, or something that can
>> >possibly be run by command line similar to fetchmail.

This is possible with other software (see above), but since Hotmail continuously
changes the way they provide access (most likely on purpose), this kind of
functionality can never be built directly into IMP since it will be outdated
almost immediately after implementing.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder