Re: Forward hotmail email to other email account

From: Kim Therkelsen (kthe00_at_control.auc.dk)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:02:42 +0200

Thank you for your answer!

Hotmail supports POP3 I guess. I will try fetchmail.

"Andreas Kahari" <ak+usenet@freeshell.org> wrote in message
news:slrnbnbfgu.h6k.ak+usenet@vinland.freeshell.org...
> In article <bl4ck0$ler$1@sunsite.dk>, Kim Therkelsen wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I know there are programs for Windows that can forward emails from
hotmail
> > to another email account.
> >
> > Now I am looking for such a program or service that i can use in an Unix
> > environment (Solaris).
> > I do not wanna go the other way around with a normal .forward file
> > forwarding my email to my hotmail account...
>
> I haven't got a clue about Hotmail. Do they support POP3 or
> IMAP? If they do, you could fetch the mail with fetchmail,
> maybe even from a cron job running every half hour or so. If
> they don't, consider switching to another service that do.
>
> fetchmail is available for most Unices. Check your distribution
> CDs, or get it from
>
> http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
>
> --
> Andreas Kähäri

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