> 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])
>>
>>
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