Re: downloading hotmail emails
hmmmm, this was like from 2 months ago... wow! Anyway I solved it found
out hotmail had pop and smtp servers so I just use that... works for me
[using fetchmail]
Daniel
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:57:17PM +0000, Christopher Cole wrote:
> I've been banging my head trying to get hotmail through thunderbird.
> I found out however that MS will not that be posible if you have a free
> account.
> I guess money is so tight that MS is going to nickle and dime long time
> account holders. That is why I'm moving on to gmail. It's configured
> in my Debian etch laptop and lenny desktop.
>
> Best of luck
> Christopher Cole
>
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:32:44 +1100
> > From: d.dalton@iinet.net.au
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: downloading hotmail emails
> >
> > 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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