Re: HELP PLEASE ! How to fetch mails from HOTMAIL.COM with GNUS/webmail & W3 ?

[Michael Huehne <mhuehne@mac.com>]

Dear ShengHuo,

This is a clear statement and I am the last person to blame you for 
Microsoft's preferences for properitary  protocols.

Would you mind to remove the hotmail part from webmail.el or put a hint 
into the source?
May I suggest a slightly clearer comment like (message "Sorry, hotmail is 
currently not working and we see no bug fix yet 12/13/2001") ? This would 
have been for me more helpful than
((error hotmail HTML has changed or your w3 package is too old.(list@0))).
Which let me hope and wait, since one option was to for a new W3.
What I did ... without success.

Now I am in good mood and will try the suggested alternatives.
Many thanks for these hints !-)

Cheers,

Michael


On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 12:30 , ShengHuo ZHU wrote:

> Michael Huehne <mhuehne@mac.com> writes:
>
>> Hello Gnus Team and Users,
>>
>> EXCUSES:----------------------
>>
>> Please excuse me, when I am sending this mail to the wrong group.
>> I am uncertain if webmail.el's Hotmail reading capabilities are broken,
>> or I am to stupid to configure it correctly.
>
> It is broken, partially because webmail.el cannot login MS passport.
> Currently, I have no idea how to get through it.
>
> [...]
>
>> In worse case: Any other way / tip (even tricky) to do one final mail
>> merge between GNUS and HOTMAIL would be appreciated. How can point me
>> to a possible solution ?
>
> A possible solution is to use Outlook Express to fetch mails from
> Hotmail, then read those folders with nndoc, or convert the dbx format
> to mbox format with ol2mbox or dbx2mbx.
>
>     http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net/
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox
>
> OE uses an unknown protocol to talk with Hotmail. If someone can
> decode that, that would be a better solution.
>
> ShengHuo