[ILUG-BOM] How do i configure hotmail account in fetchmail(Technoinfosys sbs 2004 server)
Hello Luggers, I am using Technoinfosys sbs 2004 server with fetchmail on it to download the mails for all users having pop and imap email accounts,my problem arises when i have to configure hotmai account on it.Most of the users use hotmail account.As if i know hotmail uses http protocol and port 80 for mail download.If anybody has done it please pass on the information to this list so others like me can benefit fom it.
Regards, Rohit Baisakhiya.
Hello Rohit,
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 7:15:01 PM, you wrote:
R> Hello Luggers, R> I am using Technoinfosys sbs 2004 server
What is Technoinfosys sbs 2004 server? I am not aware about it.
R> with fetchmail on it to download R> the mails for all users having pop and imap email accounts,my problem R> arises when i have to configure hotmai account on it.Most of the users R> use hotmail account.As if i know hotmail uses http protocol and port 80 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ???
True, hotmail integrates with outlook using port 80, but note that the protocol is proprietary. HTTP is just a high-level transport protocol. How they mark the mails on HTTP is a mystery to me. However, I'm sure you'd find plenty of info on the Net if you google.
I was aware of some mail clients (Non MS) that did have hotmail support... perhaps you can get some on GNU/Linux too.
R> for mail download.If anybody has done it please pass on the information R> to this list so others like me can benefit fom it.
On Monday 26 Apr 2004 5:24 pm, Amol Hatwar wrote:
What is Technoinfosys sbs 2004 server? I am not aware about it.
It's this new CD that was shipped with the months LFY mag.
Check it out... Pretty neat... Just one click ENTER and the CD installs Linux. They've done a pretty impressive job of stripping out Red Hat / Fedora from everywhere...
Rishi
On Monday 26 Apr 2004 5:24 pm, Amol Hatwar wrote:
What is Technoinfosys sbs 2004 server? I am not aware about it.
It's this new CD that was shipped with the months LFY mag.
Check it out... Pretty neat... Just one click ENTER and the CD installs
Linux.
They've done a pretty impressive job of stripping out Red Hat / Fedora
from
everywhere...
Yeah its really cool.No need to know any installation know-how or configuring any package.Every thing is pre configured and ready to use.Though it misses some of the packages but its great for a any admin to install and manage.
Rishi
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 7:15 pm, Rohit wrote:
Hello Luggers, I am using Technoinfosys sbs 2004 server with fetchmail on it to download the mails for all users having pop and imap email accounts,my problem arises when i have to configure hotmai account on it.Most of the users use hotmail account.As if i know hotmail uses http protocol and port 80 for mail download.If anybody has done it please pass on the information to this list so others like me can benefit fom it.
I'm not sure if you want a tool to fetch the hotmail accounts to the local accounts created on the SBS server. If yes, then look at this post as I think it may help.
http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20010730/001406.htm...
The strange this is that I searched for this article using Google. ;-)
If you're asking about how to configure the Outlook Express clients to directly access their hotmail accounts, then you need to enable IP forwarding / NAT using iptables....
Currectly the SBS server only enables a Squid Proxy server for users to use their browsers to surf the net... So they could use IE or Netscape on the PC to check their hotmail account.
Hope I was able to help.
Regards
Rishi
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