> Let's make it clear. I, personally, have not tried it. But a user had > called and said that there were some problems retrieving some messages. > Without alarming the user, I had asked what he was doing and he explained > that he was not setting up any connection via imap or pop. he just gives > it the url, username and password as part of the outlook. And also, > stated, he can connect to yahoo and hotmail via the url method no problem. > > I'll try to get more inof on this matter to pass it on. It sounds like > no-one has heard of this yet huh? Or maybe, it's not a big deal.
Outlook uses a protocol named HTTPmail to talk to hotmail and yahoo. Unless this protocol is implemented in SM i dont see that the user can access their mailbox in SM. A quick look at goggle gave these references.. http://jhttpmail.sourceforge.net/httpmail.html http://www.thecodeproject.com/csharp/httpmail.asp I tried to set this up in my outlook client and it barfed..;-) Just as your user complained.. /Sqm > > thanks, > -rkl > > >> Hello Rkl, >> On Tuesday, October 07, 2003, rkl wrote... >> >>> Yes it's true of the statements about imap, sm and outlok has no >>> relavencies. >> >>> However, some users are using the connection to mailserver by using a >>> hook >>> in the outlook to connect to something other tahn imap/pop directly. >>> Outlook has an option to connect with a url such as yahoo, hotmail and, >>> in >>> our case, sm through an http url calls. Thus, they are receiving and >>> sending messages from outlook with the sm being the proxy. This is what >>> I >>> meant by wrapper. >> >>> outlook <-squirrelmail->imap >> >>> any help would be good. >> >> Well... then I'd love it if you could send details on exactly how they >> are doing that, because SM doesn't have ANY code that allows for them >> to do that. So although Outlook Express supports connecting to a URL, >> SquirrelMail doesn't support Outlook connecting to it. >> >> -- >> Jonathan Angliss >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> >> > > > > ----------------------------------------- > eMail solutions by > http://www.swanmail.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
