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Hotmail POP3 account

Hi.

Is it possible to read hotmail accounts via POP3 server. Use Delphi component
to read my hotmail mails?

Program that can do it attached here.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/gethotmail.html

Thank you.

calinutz

Try idPOP3 component from the Indy Clients component pallete (Delphi 7).
Or NMPOP3 from the FastNet Component pallete (Delphi 6)
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visexpert

ASKER

Yes, i will need the POP3 address or how i can get hotmail mail from the Microsoft server?

Thanks.

sftweng

Hotmail provides an HTTP email server (can be set up with Outlook Express) at http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp.

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visexpert

ASKER

Hi.

Please tell me how this program is suppose to read them?
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/gethotmail.html

Thanks.

Wim ten Brink

Actually, Hotmail can be read through external programs. Outlook is even doing this! However, to do so you need to connect to the Hotmail webservice and know how to connect and communicate with it. MS never released much information about this but there are a few people who managed to reverse engineer Outlook and see how to call this webservice.

visexpert

ASKER

And noone here do have a demo?

sftweng

One approach would be to run GetMail using a proxy server which you write (e.g., with TIdTCPMappedPort, demo available with the Indy components), in which you capture the traffic to and from HotMail and GetMail. This would allow you to reverse engineer the protocol used.