On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM, rbw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was checking on different features of > Thunderbird that I would like to use and I ran > across the WebMail extension: > http://webmail.mozdev.org/index.html > > My question is, what do you need this for?
It looks like this scrapes email from a webmail interface and provides a local service (on localhost:110, etc.) to bring those scraped messages into Thunderbird. I think I first saw the extension years ago, before Gmail and Yahoo had free POP3 services. I suppose the only people that still use it are those that can't figure out (or can't be bothered about) POP3/IMAP from their email provider. Plus, I think a few of the supported services (Hotmail for sure, and maybe AOL) don't allow POP access, so this allows Thunderbird to download mail from them anyway. But if your email already provides POP3 access, and you know how to set it up, don't bother. This is a "made for dear old Aunt Tillie" sort of extension. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist (1564-1642) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
