[SC.LUG] POP3 Access to Hotmail

[Matthew Tolley]

> The company I work for has made the decision (unwisely IMHO) to use a
> hotmail (i.e. Microsoft Live Mail) facility for communicating with the
> workforce.
> 
> I'd prefer to access these emails by POP3 and was wondering what
> utilities I could use to do this. There's a program for Windows called
> GetMail for Hotmail which I've tried and isn't very stable (surprise
> surprise). Apparently it polls the MS server and forwards the mail to
> another email address of your choice. 
> 
> What stable, Ubuntu-compatible alternatives are there? Alternatively,
> does someone know the POP server address or IP address so I can access
> them using my email client?


I didn't get a strong response to this. Do you know of a Linux-based
program that will enable me to view emails in a hotmail account
*without* having to log in to hotmail? If pop3 isn't an option I'd
settle for logging into Gmail. I'm trying to eliminate MS from my life -
help!!