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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index f6240521..c0c2cc60 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/02/22 13:35:21 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/03/07 17:10:03 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#S4">S4. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a><br> <a href="#S5">S5. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a><br> <a href="#S6">S6. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?</a><br> +<a href="#S7">S7. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail?</a><br> +<a href="#S8">S8. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?</a><br> <h1>How to set up well-known security and authentication methods:</h1> @@ -1295,6 +1297,24 @@ As with M$ Exchange, the only real fix for these problems is to get a POP (or preferably IMAP) server that isn't brain-dead.<P> <hr> +<h2><a name="S7">S7. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail?</a></h2> + +You can't, yet. But the fetchmail contrib directory contains a script +called `hotmole' that can retrieve Hotmail mail via the web using +Lynx. That is, until Microsoft changes the page structure to break +this kind of access.<p> + +<hr> +<h2><a name="S8">S8. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?</a></h2> + +You can't. MSN uses something that looks like POP3, except the +authentication part is nonstandard. And of course they don't +document it, so nobody but their Windows clients can speak it.<p> + +This is a customer lock-in tactic; we recommend boycotting MSN as the +only appropriate response.<p> + +<hr> <h2><a name="K1">K1. How can I use fetchmail with SOCKS?</a></h2> Daniel Sobral <<a href="mailto:dcs@gns.com.br">dcs@gns.com.br</a> @@ -2260,7 +2280,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<P> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/02/22 13:35:21 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/03/07 17:10:03 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |