Re: downloading hotmail emails

[Pedro Insua <pedroinsua@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:00:54PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could someone please give me some hints on setting up fetchmail with the
> hotmail pop3 server provided in a reply to this thread? Eg. how do I
> enable ssl in fetchmail, and establish an ssl connection with fetchmail
> and get the required pem files or whatever from hotmail?

  1) Install `fetchmail'

     apt-get install fetchmail

  2) Read the doc in /usr/share/doc/fetchmail
     Read de manual `man fetchmail'

  3) Create '~/.fetchmailrc' and set it `chmod 0600'

  Now you have to put something like this in '~/.fetchmailrc' to
  retrieve the hotmail mail: 

     # hotmail.com
        poll pop3.live.com
        proto pop3
        port 995
        user "youremail@hotmail.com"
        pass "yourpassword"
        is your_home
        fetchall
        ssl

  Well, i don't use hotmail, but.. i think will be something like
  this...


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