Bob Schwier on Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:35:14 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] spoofing off subject


And I tried the address through ftp and the damned machine hung up.
It's moments like this that I remember my animus against Bill Gates.
I'm the one who saw how much his boys cost the Philadelphia school
district while he was harping on the need for education.
bs


On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:27:39AM -0400, Bob Schwier wrote:
> > How do you telnet into a hotmail account?  I have a friend who wants to
> > leave Bill Gates behind but does not want to go through the hassle of
> > chaning her e-mail address.
> 
> You can only send email using SMTP, you can't retrieve it (unless
> it's delivered to an SMTP daemon on your local machine). I was just
> talking about telneting to port 25, which just lets you make
> deliveries to an SMTP daemon.
> 
> Your friend wants to retrieve her email from Hotmail on another
> system using a POP3 or IMAP4 mail user agent. fetchmail is probably
> what she wants, provided that Hotmail allows you to retrieve mail
> using one of those protocols. I have no clue whether they do or not.
> Another option would be email forwarding, provided Hotmail offers
> that.
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> 

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