help! need email help FAST!! (off topic)

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Aug 20, 2001 7:45 pm

is it possible to check hotmail from yahoo email or the other way around? does it HAVE to be a POP server, or is it possible to configure it...and if so, how?

thanks!

(sorry this is OT...just in a big hurry for this)

TheManiacal1 · Post by **TheManiacal1** » Mon Aug 20, 2001 8:18 pm

there is a setting in outlook express that allows you to access your hotmail email via outlook express. i don't think you can pop it via any other program?

yahoo i dunno bout...

Splitfire · Post by **Splitfire** » Mon Aug 20, 2001 8:37 pm

In Yahoo mail you sould be able to setup an external email account pretty easily that will allow you to check other email. I don't know for certain if you can check a Hotmail account, but I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't be able to.

JohnG27 · Post by **JohnG27** » Mon Aug 20, 2001 9:28 pm

I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't think so. I think it would have to be pop. They would probably need seperate functions for each free http e-mail account if they where to allow it, and I don't think they would go through the trouble. Pop is easy, has a std interface. No such luck with http(email) as far as I know. Can be done in any which way on the server. I would assume hotmail does have a way to export the messages to a calling program considering they integrated it in outlook (in another words, I doubt they just have it parse the page returned by the cgi script, and get the mail that way - but have a way to connect, and dumb the new messages to the prog), but once again I doubt yahoo would implement it.
-John

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Aug 20, 2001 9:33 pm

thanks. i figured i couldn't do it via yahoo...but wanted to ask here. i knew that if it could be done, someone here would know!

i didn't know OE could get hotmail, which is cool...but i don't like how if you download the emails to it they are marked as "read" or not "new" anymore online.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Aug 21, 2001 11:37 am

Some related info:

Found a VERY handy site that let's you access your POP3 account from a web browser, and unlike some of these doesn't limit the number of times you can use it:

http://mail2web.com/

Very handy when I'm on the road and don't have the lappy handy.