About:
Hotwayd is a POP3/SMTP to HTTPMail (WebDAV) gateway. HTTPMail is a somewhat undocumented WebDAV-based protocol used by a variety of mail servers including Hotmail, MSN, Lycos, and Spray. Hotwayd allows you to use any standard POP3/SMTP mail reader to send and receive mail via these servers, similar to the way that Outlook Express can access a hotmail account. It supports features such as folder selection to get folders other than the inbox and proxy server support (if you require a proxy to access the internet).

Author:
David Smith [contact developer]

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8.49/10.00 (6 votes)

Homepage:
http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hotwayd/hotwayd-0.8.2.tar.gz?download
Tar/BZ2:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hotwayd/hotwayd-0.8.2.tar.bz2?download
Changelog:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=289419
RPM package:
http://sourceforge.net/[..]25479&package_id=18457&release_id=289419
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freshports.org/mail/hotwayd/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://hotwayd.cvs.sourceforge.net/
Mailing list archive:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=25479

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows :: Cygwin, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Communications :: Email, Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents, Communications :: Email :: Post-Office, Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Development	0.8.2	13-Dec-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] It's pretty slick!
by Scott Edwards - Sep 2nd 2006 16:08:37

A little searching with google turned up a perfect xinetd.d config. In theory you could use ssh with a forced command in your authroized_keys file and specify the select identity to run hotwayd remotely.

I however decided to install it locally for Mac OS X Mail to use as a pop account. The only short-comming I find is no support for IMAP. It might also be nice for it to see if it's running from a terminal or a socket, and use STDERR to notify the user they might want usage help.

At any rate, thanks for providing it. It'll save me from hotmail's hideous webmail interface! yippie!

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