[Gllug] including hotmail account into kmail

[Mamading Ceesay]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:33:50 +0100, Russell Howe <rhowe at wiss.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> If you're after configuring an account using the "HTTP mail protocol" as
> 'supported' by Outlook and Outlook Express, I doubt it.
> 
> MS provide some kind of IMAP-like service for Hotmail, but I'm not aware
> of anyone who has reverse-engineered whatever their protocol does. By
> the use of the HTTP term, I guess it's tunnelled over HTTP, possibly
> even via something standard like SOAP.
> 

The protocol is called HTTPMail which is derived from WebDAV.  Hotwayd
implements it and allows the use of standards-based mail clients like
kmail.  See  http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net/about/

Regards,
Mamading
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