[imp] Retrieving Hotmail Emails

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> 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 functionality can never be built directly into IMP since it will be outdated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.

That's not correct. Hotmail has a well defined WebDAV interface that can be
used to retrieve folders, messages and contacts and that has been stable
since years.

Jan.

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