On Friday 07 March 2003 00:13, Glen Wagley wrote: > Also, tonight my wife > made a face and said, "I can't check my hotmail with Linux." I gasped, > wished I'd made a prenup...just kidding. Anyhow, what she wants is to > have her email client retrieve her hotmail without having to open a > browser. I've heard hotwayd is the way to go but I don't know how to > set it up. Anyone had any experience with hotwayd? Thanx.
I inadvertently became the port maintainer for the FreeBSD port of hotwayd by virtue of the fact that I was the first person to submit it. (Okay, so I made two one-line patches to get it to compile on FreeBSD.) Anyway, it's a neat piece of software. You compile it, install it, add it to inetd (or equivalent), and treat it like a POP3 server. You don't have to run it on the pop3 port (110), though. I usually run it on 330, although that's more or less arbitrary. Just pick a port and define it in /etc/services. The "pop3" username is the full e-mail address, e.g.: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The password is, of course, the password for the account. hotwayd, fetchmail, procmail and spamassassin make an extremely useful combination. (Whatever "improved" anti-spam features MSN 8 has, there's no way it beats doing it yourself). If you add an IMAP server and a webmail front-end like squirrelmail, your wife will wonder why she ever signed up with hotmail in the first place (but she will continue to get mail from her old address.. minus the spam). Have fun! JN ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
