ffi Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Hi, Under Windows I used a little program called hotmail popper to get my hotmail through a regular email client, does a similar program exist for Linux? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachwor Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 If you have a POP3 Hotmail account I would imagine you could do this rather easily with KMail or even Thunderbird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 I have a normal acount, they don´t have pop access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 The you have to find the popmail settings hotmail popper uses and fill that in kmail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 (edited) The you have to find the popmail settings hotmail popper uses and fill that in kmail. I´m sorry for not being totally clear but I don´t have a ¨hotmail popper¨ for Linux, I´m looking for an equivalent, preferably one which also has SMTP support and support for Yahoo as well but for Yahoo there´s Ypops. (edit: I believe hotpop uses a script to login, retrieve and send mail from hotmail and then sends.recieves it to the local e-mail program as normal pop and smtp mail) Edited February 8, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 I believe you´re correct. :) What you need are the popmail settings of hotmail popper like I said. These settings you put in a mail client like kmail. If you don´t have these settings ask them from the hotmail popper people. That´s it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 devries i think you are not on the same page as ffi. hotpopper is a windows application (if i understand it correctly). if it works like yahoopops, it reads the webmail interface of hotmail and brings up a pseudo smtp/pop3 server in the workstation to serve as an abstraction layer so that normal mail clients can use it to get and receive mail. i would gather that the smtp/pop3 settings of hotpopper points to localhost so it would be moot to get those since they do not yet exist when ffi boots in linux (at least if the ports specified are not reserved for common applications). :) ffi, please feel free to correct me if i am the one who misunderstoods. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Yes, this is correct. Which reminds I also need to get ypops (as yahoopops now is called) working on Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 I stand corrected. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Not really an answer to your question but this is how I've setup my gmail account: Install sendmail (urpmi sendmail), start it (as root type: service sendmail start (this can take awhile)). In kmail, got to settings, options and create a new identity and fill in the gmail email adress (don't forget to put in a returnadress). Create a new 'receive acount' with the gmail pop settings. Create a new 'send' account with as transport 'sendmai'. Save settings. Open a new email, click on 'view' and check identity. Change the identity to the gmail adress and now you can sent an email that looks like it's coming from your gmail adress. If the receiver wants to send a return email it will be send to your gmail account. You can do the same with hotmail and yahoo email adresses only kmail can not receive mail from these accounts because you don't have a pop account (however you can run kopete and add yahoo and msn accounts for your email adresses and get warnings when new mail arrives). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachwor Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 What about trying to run your Hotmail Popper program through Wine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Is there anyway to make it run on start up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironfighter Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 This might be what your looking for: http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.php I have a confession to make - I have kidnapped his penguin. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 This might be what your looking for: http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.php Yes, I use hotwayd also mentioned on this page and it works, now I also use ypops but I wonder if there´s also an all in one package available which has pop and smtp and does both hotmail and yahoo.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 This might be what your looking for: http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.php I have a confession to make - I have kidnapped his penguin. :D Hmm, according to the infomation on the website I need "URI-CSPAN-module", but the link they gave is dead :sad: Anyone know from where can I gey it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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