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From: Gordon on 12 Mar 2007 11:45
is there, anywhere, please a STEP by STEP instruction on how to set up
gotmail? So far my google search has not turned up a step-by-step
instruction on how to set it up and configure it. If I type "gotmail"
into a terminal, it gives me a list of options, but NOT how to use them!
From: Liam O'Toole on 12 Mar 2007 13:39
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:45:10 +0000
Gordon <gbplinux(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

> is there, anywhere, please a STEP by STEP instruction on how to set
> up gotmail? So far my google search has not turned up a step-by-step
> instruction on how to set it up and configure it. If I type "gotmail"
> into a terminal, it gives me a list of options, but NOT how to use
> them!

Does the man page not help? It explains the options in detail.

There is no step-by-step guide, because it's a one-step operation :-)
In my case, I created a file called .gotmailrc with the following
contents:

username=<my username>
domain=hotmail.com
password=<my password>
forward=<my alternate email address>
only-new
mark-read
delete
silent
speed-limit

I changed the permissions on the file by executing:

chmod go-rwx .gotmailrc

Then, simply invoking 'gotmail' on the command line fetches new emails
from the Hotmail server, forwards them to my alternate email address,
marks them as read, and removes them from my Hotmail in-box.

Finally, I arranged to invoke gotmail as a cron job.

OK, maybe that's a bit more than one step, but setting up
the .gotmailrc file is a one-off. Hope it helps.

--

Liam
From: Gordon on 23 Mar 2007 06:34
Liam O'Toole wrote:


>
> There is no step-by-step guide, because it's a one-step operation :-)
> In my case, I created a file called .gotmailrc with the following
> contents:
>
> username=<my username>
> domain=hotmail.com
> password=<my password>
> forward=<my alternate email address>
> only-new
> mark-read
> delete
> silent
> speed-limit
>

Got the receiving of mail OK - how do you do sending, (if indeed you do send
via Hotmail)?
From: Liam O'Toole on 23 Mar 2007 08:34
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:34:27 +0000
Gordon <gbplinux(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

> Got the receiving of mail OK - how do you do sending, (if indeed you
> do send via Hotmail)?

I'm not aware of a utility to send mail via Hotmail. You could just set
the return address to your Hotmail one when sending mail by another
means.

--

Liam
From: Gordon on 23 Mar 2007 11:05
Liam O'Toole wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:34:27 +0000
> Gordon <gbplinux(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Got the receiving of mail OK - how do you do sending, (if indeed you
>> do send via Hotmail)?
>
> I'm not aware of a utility to send mail via Hotmail. You could just set
> the return address to your Hotmail one when sending mail by another
> means.
>

I thought that might be the case - interestingly Thunderbird has a webmail
and hotmail extension that does both sending and receiving and which works
on either Linux or Windows....
I set up Sendmail for Hotmail, and the test messages I sent do indeed seem
to be sent - they appear in the Sent-mail folder, but after that seem to
disappear into the ether.....
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