Re: [Evolution] re: Newbie question - Getting mail off Hotmail Account

["S Roberts" <sroberts84 hotmail com>]

Hello,
    Thanks for the reply, and the pointer to GotMail - I'll certainly look 
into it.

I have another question along the same lines though - perhaps an explanation 
of the situation here might be in order, please bear with me, as I want to 
ensure I explain everything clearly.

My FreeBSD machine is on a 56K Internet dial up connection at home. Although 
its available, I've never used the email accounts offered by my ISP (as 
mentioned before, I have had my Hotmail account for years, now, and I'm 
quite happy with it).

As such, I'm interested in the follwing set-up:

=> Retain my Hotmail Account
=> Continue using present dial-up connection
=> Use GotMail to pull email from Hotmail to a designated user mbox account 
on the FreeBSD system
=> Use Evolution to read email from said designated user mbox

Is the above possible, given that when first configuring Evolution I get 
asked for my ISP's mail server info to set up user accounts? As mentioned 
above, I'm even using the ISP's email facility here, so I'm a bit stumped as 
to what I should enter in these fields.

I simply want to continue getting my Hotmail email (as I used to under WIN2K 
/ Outlook Express). Only now under FreeBSD, I'm hoping to replicate this 
using Evolution and a script like GotMail.

Please let me know what you think..,

Thanks again to all that got back to me. Looking forward to hearing what you 
guys say on this.

Regards,
Stacey

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> Subject: Re: [Evolution] re: Newbie question - Getting mail off Hotmail 
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> Date: 02 Mar 2002 17:50:42 +0800
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> There is a program called 'gotmail'
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/gotmail/) that downloads your hotmail to
> a mbox type file (which you can use Evolution to read). Unfortunately as
> of version (1.0.2) you can't make Evolution execute a script before it
> checks mail. So you will have to daemonise the script in another way.
> --davYd
>
> On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 02:28, S Roberts wrote:
>     Hello,
>          I've recently installed Evolution on my machine - FreeBSD 4.5 
> Stable,
>     and all seems well with the product.
>
>     I've got a long standing Hotmail account, that I would still like 
> access to.
>     Is it possible to configure Evolution to get my email off my Hotmail
>     account? If so, what are the magic switches to toggle?
>
>     Thanks for the time, and to those who might respond.
>
>     Regards,
>     Stacey
>
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