[Gllug] Yahoo and fetchmail

[Paul Cupis]

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On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 20:23, Peter Adamson wrote:
> >This might help:
> >http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/
> >
> ><QUOTE from the site>
> >YahooPOPs! is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 access to
> >your Yahoo! Mail account. YahooPOPs! is available on the Windows and
> >Unix platforms.
> >
> >This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email
> >clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, Calypso, etc., to
> >download email from Yahoo! accounts.
> ></QUOTE>
>
> Does anyone know of a similar script for hotmail?

You may be interested in the 'gotmail' script.

paul at kippax:~$ apt-cache show gotmail
Package: gotmail
...
Maintainer: paul cannon <pik at debian.org>
...
Description: Script to fetch mail out of a hotmail account
 Gotmail is a perl script to fetch mail out of a hotmail account.
 This is especially useful if you want to move from Hotmail into
 one of the other free mail services - one command can do it all.
 GotMail also supports getting any new mail only from your Hotmail
 account - perfect for using a HotMail account as a redirect
 address into another account.

The Debian maintainer also seems to be the current upstream. Google will find 
you a number of web pages about this, including:

http://ssl.usu.edu/paul/gotmail/  (official site? seems to be down)
http://www.preikschat.com/gotmail.html (old maintainers official site?)
http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.php

It is also available from your local Debian mirror at:

http://www.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/g/gotmail/

I don't think that this script tries to be a local POP3 server, I suspect it 
will download the mail and pass it to your local MTA.

Regards,

Paul Cupis
- -- 
paul at cupis.co.uk

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