Send and Receive Your Hotmail messages through Evolution
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First, make sure your system is up to date. Open up a terminal and type
sudo apt-get update
First You need to install the inet daemon
sudo apt-get install inetutils-inetd
This takes care of all of our dependencies.
Next You need to install pop3 server and hotsmtp
sudo apt-get install hotway hotsmtp
This will install hotway, which allows you to read hotmail e-mails by simulating a POP3 server, and hotsmtp, which allows you to send e-mail through hotmail using SMTP.
By default, however, only hotway gets installed properly to your inet daemon, so let's fix this.
sudo gedit /etc/inetd.conf
Look for the following line
pop3 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/hotwayd
By default, hotway leaves a copy of each message it downloads on the server but if you don't feel like filling up your hotmail box, change the line to add "-r" to the end, complete line looks like below
pop3 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/hotwayd -r
And we also need to add a line to get hotsmtpd working, just paste the following line at the bottom of the file
2500 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/hotsmtpd
This will set the inet daemon to listen to incoming calls on port 2500, and forward the connection to the hotsmtp daemon. Now, save your file, exit gedit, and restart your inetd server using the following command
sudo /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart
If everything is working properly, you'll see the following pop up on your screen
* Restarting internet superserver inetd [ ok ]
Now, close out of your terminal and start up Evolution. It may pop up the first-time use wizard, you can use that if you like. Or, you may have to go to Edit->Preferences and hit the Mail Accounts button on the left. However you choose to do it, here's your information:
Email Address: [email protected] (fill in your normal e-mail address that you use to login to hotmail)
Receive Server type: POP
Server: 127.0.0.1
Username: [email protected] (same as above)
Security: No encryption
Authentication type: Password
(Remember password checkbox is up to you)
Send Server type: SMTP
Server: 127.0.0.1:2500
[X] Server requires authentication (check this box)
Use Secure Connection: No encryption
Authentication Type: PLAIN
Username: [email protected] (same as above)
(Optional Remember password checkbox)
Important Update
Re: HOWTO: Send and Receive Hotmail through Evolution
Installation of hotwayd as described in the first post is no longer needed. It is mentioned earlier in this thread, but that info gets snowed under because every time new posts are added…
Since some time now, you can use the following settings just like any regular POP account:
Code:
Incoming server: pop3.live.com
Username: your_username @hotmail.com
Use secure connection: SSL
Authentication type: password
Outgoing server: smtp.live.com
Server requires authentication: yes
Security: SSL
Authentication type: plain
With these settings, you should be able to get is working without going through the hotway daemon (on 127.0.0.1) …
Qwest email SMTP setting for newer or migrated email from Live
smtp.q.com:587
TLS
login
Works perfect for me.
Before you go doing anything about the hotway, read the important update. You don’t need to modify internal system files.
Do this setting also apply to other mails like the yahoo?
This doesn’t work:
andrei@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install hotway hotsmtp
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package hotway
E: Unable to locate package hotsmtp
andrei@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install hotway
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package hotway
andrei@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install hotsmtp
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package hotsmtp
I have the same problem as Andrei. My terminal is exactly the same.
clay@clay-FX6800-01e:~$ sudo apt-get install hotway hotsmtp
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package hotway
E: Unable to locate package hotsmtp
clay@clay-FX6800-01e:~$
How do I resolve this?
see very bottom of the article – you n longer need hotway as per below copy and pasted….
“Important Update
Re: HOWTO: Send and Receive Hotmail through Evolution
Installation of hotwayd as described in the first post is no longer needed. It is mentioned earlier in this thread, but that info gets snowed under because every time new posts are added…
Since some time now, you can use the following settings just like any regular POP account:
Code:
Incoming server: pop3.live.com
Username: your_username @hotmail.com
Use secure connection: SSL
Authentication type: password
Outgoing server: smtp.live.com
Server requires authentication: yes
Security: SSL
Authentication type: plain
With these settings, you should be able to get is working without going through the hotway daemon (on 127.0.0.1) …”
I got Evolution to connect and download my Hotmail emails, but it will not connect to smtp.live.com for outgoing and times out. I should have checked “leave messages on server” before first connection and now have all my messages on Evolution and not on server, and now can’t forward the messages to get them back. Any ideas?