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Authored by: Fabsmartins on Feb 07, '03 10:01:00AM

Hey,
since Hotmail is not the only free service available, i was wondering if there is a way of applying these methods (or any other method, as a matter of fact), to check other free web based e-mails with Mail.app.

My reasoning is that if this can be done with Hotmail surely it could also be done with the others.

Thank you for the help,
cheers,
fabs



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Other free webmail accounts
Authored by: slowco on Feb 07, '03 01:17:47PM

There have been reports on VersionTracker that httpmail works with EudoraMail (Lycos) accounts. It may work with others. Try it and find out!

For Yahoo! accounts, there is YahooPOPS!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops

Good luck!



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Other free webmail accounts
Authored by: jtratcliff on Feb 07, '03 04:12:54PM

There's also YoSucker:
http://yosucker.sourceforge.net

which can download Yahoo! Mail and save it as a Unix mbox file...

Just point YoSucker to an mbox file in /Library/Mail and it'll append to it.

for example, here's the OUTFILE line from my YoSucker config file:
OUTFILE=/Users/myname/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Yahoo! Mail.mbox/mbox

A cron job can run YoSucker every few minutes.

Pros: No psuedo pop server needed, can check multiple yahoo accounts, only gets
new messages, delete from server option, ssl connection available, works with
any mail client that uses unix mbox files

Cons: doesn't automagically show up as new mail in Mail.app (you need to select the
mail folder for Mail.app to recognize that there are new messagesin it), requires that
you install some perl modules



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