Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Special Mail Delivery Agents

Special Mail Delivery Agents

If you already use Hotmail or another web-based email account, the currently available MUAs are not useful to you: Formal POP3 access to a Hotmail account is not available free of charge. However, Microsoft Outlook Express can access Hotmail at no charge, using a special protocol called HTTPMail. How that is done is covered in RFC 2518 as "WebDAV extensions to HTTP/1.1." No specific solution is provided by Fedora, but the basic tools it provides are adequate when supplemented by some clever Perl programming.

Hotwayd is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotwayd/ and implements this functionality, allowing you to use your favorite mail client to read mail from Hotmail.

A newer Hotmail access tool is Gotmail from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gotmail. It is a Perl script that is easy to configure. There are brief tutorials on configuring it for use with KMail and Evolution at http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=437.

A similar tool exists for Yahoo! Mail. FetchYahoo is available from http://fetchyahoo.twizzler.org/.

After it is implemented, you can use a regular MUA, or mail client, to access your web- based mail. None of them, however, enable you to send mail through Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail.

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