KMail + Hotmail

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Kenneth

Intermediate

Posts: 302

Sunday, June 8th 2003, 5:09am

KMail + Hotmail

Does anyone here know how to set up a Hotmail account to work with KMail, or maybe Evolution?

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Mystilleef

Beginner

Posts: 46

Sunday, June 8th 2003, 6:43am

No for Hotmail...

I don't know about Evolution, but that will be almost impossible for Hotmail. You see, Kmail is a POP/IMAP client, to the best of my knowledge, that make use of the smtp protocol.

Since hotmail is a http protocol as opposed to smtp, you need a http client or a web browser, like Konqueror or Mozilla to view your hotmail mails.

To the best of my knowledge, the only email client that can access your hotmail account is Microsoft Outlook, which also a web browser/http client.

Again, I don't know about Evolution, but I sincerely apologize if I have confused you.

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Mystilleef

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Kenneth

Intermediate

Posts: 302

Sunday, June 8th 2003, 8:24am

Thanks. Is that also the same for Netscape mail? I heard something about it in a Mozilla discussion.

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anda_skoa

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Sunday, June 8th 2003, 11:46am

I remember reading something about WebDAV integration for KMail ond the kmail mailinglist.

WebDAV is the HTTP based protocol Outlook uses to work with Hotmail and KDE has a WebDAV ioslave IIRC.

See if there is a feature request for it on bugs.kde.org and vote for it if you think it is important.

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garyng

Beginner

Posts: 16

Thursday, June 12th 2003, 11:07am

google 'gotmail' and you will find information of how to retrieve hotmail. google 'fetchyahoo' for the same operation.

With some tweaks, you can have all these accessible in KMAIL. linux is really cool in handling this kind of stuff.

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Mystilleef

Beginner

Posts: 46

Friday, June 13th 2003, 1:02pm

Quoted

Original von garyng

google 'gotmail' and you will find information of how to retrieve hotmail. google 'fetchyahoo' for the same operation.

With some tweaks, you can have all these accessible in KMAIL. linux is really cool in handling this kind of stuff.

Hello,

I learn something new everyday. Thanks for the above pointer. I never new a program like that existed. I'll give it a try.

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fab

Beginner

Posts: 6

Tuesday, June 17th 2003, 12:57pm

Check this out http://en.vosberg.be/doc/kde/kmail_gotmail.shtml.

grtz'

Fab

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tuxnet

Intermediate

Posts: 348

Tuesday, June 17th 2003, 2:46pm

Quoted

Original von garyng

google 'gotmail' and you will find information of how to retrieve hotmail. google 'fetchyahoo' for the same operation.

With some tweaks, you can have all these accessible in KMAIL. linux is really cool in handling this kind of stuff.

Thanks for the Info as it looks like you have helpped more than one person here. I have yahoo mail and I will be looking into the "fetchyahoo" Once again thx allot

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Kenneth

Intermediate

Posts: 302

Sunday, June 22nd 2003, 9:16pm

I'm looking into gotmail now. And does anyone know how to use KMail with Netscape Mail? Supposedly, it's IMAP, but I don't know what to put in for all those setup fields.

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