[Klug-general] Hotwayd (was web editing woes)

[Graham]

On Saturday 23 July 2005 13:11, aleX Layfield wrote:

> Hotmail did a thing where only the older addresses could continue to
> use Outlook/Express to login and download for free, I think the
> address had to be two or so yrs old. The newer addresses have to be
> paid for...
>
> aleX

Agreed, but the latest version of Hotwayd was released on 23rd June 
2005.  This is what it says in the "About" part of the website at 
http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net :

"It is now possible using hotwayd in conjunction with your favourite 
POP3/SMTP implementing mail reader (and soon [read: not so soon] also 
possible using IMAP4). Hotwayd allows you to do this by using the 
HTTPMail protocol, the same protocol that Outlook[tm]/OE uses, to 
access the hotmail or MSN servers. 
 
 HTTPMail is based on WebDAV, and is a way to access remote resources 
using simple HTTP requests (which means that you can also access your 
HTTPMail server behind a proxy server!)"

This means (I presume) that if hotmail mail can be downloaded in OE on 
Win XP then it should be downloadable through an MUA calling Hotwayd 
running as a daemon.  My girlfriend can download hotmail through Win XP 
but not through Hotwayd.

Also, a far older version of Gotmail can download her mail and forward 
iit to another of her email addresses, allowing very easy spam 
filtering, so it beats me why Hotwayd can't download her mail.

I've sent a bug report to the developers of Hotwayd to see if they know 
of this problem and have any workarounds.  In the meantime, if you have 
difficulty connecting to Hotmail through Hotwayd, have a look at 
Gotmail.  Its not seamless and has to be run separately (basically 
amend the sample.gotmailrc and save it in your home directory as 
~/.gotmailrc and then run Gotmail).  If you've set it up correctly it 
can forward your Hotmail mail to another email address and then you 
download it directly.
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Graham