[imp] Fetch mail from Hotmail

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at mail.curecanti.org
Sun May 22 16:42:56 PDT 2005


Quoting Xavier Perseguers <devel at perseguers.no-ip.com>:

> Normando Hall wrote:
>> Any knows how to configure imap/pop server address to fetch mails from
>> hotmail to imp?
>
> You cannot! Hotmail does not support the pop3/imap protocol but uses a
> HTTP-protocol (as far as I know, based on WebDAV).

There were some free hotmail mail grabbers around and I had started to 
port one for use with IMP's fetchmail code, but thrn Hotmail/Microsoft 
began to charge for all webDav-like related access to hotmail mailboxes 
so i said "forget this".

michael

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