HOWTO: Send and Receive Hotmail through Evolution

[Freaky_Llama]

UPDATE and a FIX:

For those of you who have issues SENDING using this method, the following is for you.

I am running 7.04 on my Tosh laptop, and had the exact same error with sending : "Operation In Progress" in Evolution using hotwayd and hotsmtpd.

I felt the issue was in hosts.allow and I was right. Please add the following line to /etc/hosts.allow :

hotsmtpd: 127.0.0.1 2500

This was the end-all-be all of my issues, and now sending works fine. I hope it helps with anyone else who is having the issue.

Also, to mention, I have configured xinetd with option "--inetd_compat" as suggested in a post somewhere in this thread. After editing hosts.allow, I did the following:

sudo /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart
sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

[mominnawaz1]

You're a genius man, i have been trying this for ages, and it works perfect with my ubuntu as im a geek too , but man ure amazing.

Thanks,

Cheers,

M

[mamadou]

Great how to!!!
It worked for me from the first time.
No worries,
Good Job.
Thank you very much!

[voodew]

I figured out that I was running xinetd and the package was installed as a dependency of vmware. I tried adding the -inetd_compat parameter to the xinetd file and was only able to receive mail. Editing the hosts.allow didn't help either. I figured out the configuration for xinetd without use of the -inetd_compat parameter. It goes as follows:

sudo gedit /etc/xinetd.conf and copy and paste this:

defaults
{
        instances               = 60
        log_type                = SYSLOG authpriv
        log_on_success          = HOST PID
        log_on_failure          = HOST
        cps                     = 25 30
}
includedir /etc/xinetd.d

Next sudo gedit and create these two files:
/etc/xinetd.d/hotsmtpd

service hotsmtpd
{
disable = no
type = unlisted
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = nobody
groups = yes
server = /usr/bin/hotsmtpd
port = 2500
}

/etc/xinetd.d/hotwayd

service hotwayd
{
disable = no
type = unlisted
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = nobody
groups = yes
server = /usr/bin/hotwayd
log_on_failure += USERID
log_on_success += PID HOST EXIT
port = 110
}

Restart the xinetd server

sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

I'm sure there is a more streamlined way of configuring these files and the log files that are being created are probably unnecessary. I'm not sure if editing of hosts.allow is required if you use this method, my file is blank. I also don't know how secure this method is. Anyone have any additional input?

[sehe]

Or better yet just use...

pop3hot.com

as your pop3 server and your set.

JUST SAY NO

Aw please... That is one blunt way to invite people into massively dumping their hotmail passwords onto some guy's nifty 'free server'

I would *not* advise anyone to do this as long as it is trivial to set up hotway locally. I know, passwords will probably still get sent in cleartext, but purposely sending them through a specific server that *knows* what to listen for is just a little bit naive in my book .

Trouble is, people don't know how much privacy-sensitive information can be gained from their lowly hotmail boxes... Please do not advise unsuspecting computer users of bad ideas like this. Thank you thank you thank you

[chrno2004]

I've already got courier-pop installed on my server. Is there anyway to configure hotway to listen on alternative port? Also, configure hotway to download the mail to one of my mailbox in courier?

Thanks!

chrno

[voodew]

I've already got courier-pop installed on my server. Is there anyway to configure hotway to listen on alternative port? Also, configure hotway to download the mail to one of my mailbox in courier?

Thanks!

chrno

Just to promote my last post, if you use xinetd instead of inetd (xinetd is the update to inetd), then follow the instructions in my last post and just change the port numbers as so:

service hotwayd
{
disable = no
type = unlisted
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = nobody
groups = yes
server = /usr/bin/hotwayd
port = 1100
}

If you're using the inetd method just change this line in inetd.conf:

pop3		stream	tcp	nowait	nobody	/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/hotwayd -r

to something like

1100		stream	tcp	nowait	nobody	/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/hotwayd -r

[utopial]

I've set up evolution with my hotmail account according to the following instructions:
http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/...-messages.html

I have 2 major problems, which are related:
- after evolution downloads my mail, it is automatically put in my hotmail trash when i check it out via webmail
- how do i sync the two together so that if i make a folder or move emails between folders in evolution or web-based hotmail, the other one recognises it and automatically does the same?

I consider this to be a massive problem with evolution. outlook does it perfectly.

[voodew]

I've set up evolution with my hotmail account according to the following instructions:
http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/...-messages.html

I have 2 major problems, which are related:
- after evolution downloads my mail, it is automatically put in my hotmail trash when i check it out via webmail
- how do i sync the two together so that if i make a folder or move emails between folders in evolution or web-based hotmail, the other one recognises it and automatically does the same?

I consider this to be a massive problem with evolution. outlook does it perfectly.

I'm not sure about syncing, but the hotmail trash problem should be an easy fix.
If you have a line that looks like

pop3		stream	tcp	nowait	nobody	/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/hotwayd -r

in your inetd.conf file, remove the -r option.
In the account preferences in evolution, go to the Receiving Options tab and make sure "Leave Messages on Server" is checked.

[jnewm]

Thanks so much, this worked perfectly for me the first time also!

But, to echo some previous posts, if anyone does know or figures out how to make it so when you delete downloaded hotmail emails in evolution, they also get deleted from your online hotmail account, please clue me in.

Thanks again!