Re: downloading hotmail emails

[Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au>]

Thanks will give this ago.


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:41:32PM +0000, Pedro Insua wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Porqu? loitar e matar, se podes amar e sonhar
> 
> /"\
> \ /  CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML
>  X   ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL
> / \
> 
> 
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