Ian,
FYI, Outlook(Express) accesses Hotmail via the HTTP Extensions for
Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV. You can find it documented in RFC 2518.
You could write an IMAP<->DAV gateway, mapping the IMAP protocol requests to
DAV, but there are many IMAP protocol features which do not map directly to
DAV. A better solution might be to write something like fetchmail to grab
mail off Hotmail and store it in a Maildir where courier could then access
it.
Hope this helps,
-Jim
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From: "Ian Turner" <vec...@pipeline.com>
To: "Courier IMAP Mailing List" <cour...@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [courier-users] Hotmail & Courier
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If you're determined to get Hotmail to work in this manner anyway, you
might
try sneaking behind the scenes of Outlook or Outlook Express to see how
they
access Hotmail accounts. Maybe set up a packet sniffer and watch the
commands going back and forth.
I've already done that. Outlook makes HTTP requests; Hotmail gives folder
data in XML and messages in a raw format. The protocol is really
straightforward and should be easy to implement.
My question is how best to glue it onto Courier.
Ian
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