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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Using KDE in corporate environment - Queries and suggestions
From:       Malte.Starostik () t-online ! de (Malte Starostik)
Date:       2001-03-13 14:55:40
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Am Montag, 12. März 2001 19:54 schrieb Michael Jarrett:
> biswapesh.chattopadhyay@bt.com wrote:
> > 6. Mail. OK, this is a lame one since probably you can't do anything
> > abouut it, but has anyone had any success talking Exchange's proprietory
> > protocol through ANY mail client ? This is the one major thing that
> > forces me to switch back into NT every two hours or so. Also, how
> > difficult would it be to get KMail to access mails automatically from the
> > standard internet mail systems like Yahoo & Hotmail ? It would really be
> > a killer feature ! It would need some tricky scripting and of course,
> > someone would have to actively maintain the stuff so that changes in the
> > website are incorporated but it might be worth the effort if the current
> > KMail architecture supports it.
>
> Hotmail in particular is very difficult - and it has been tried by a few
> adventurous people in the past. The web interface switches between SSL
> and normal at least once (maybe twice), uses several cookies in the
> interim, and a few tricks that nobody has successfully been able to
> follow.
> Exchange is probably the legal thorn from hell, but I wouldn't know.
Hotmail can be accessed via WebDAV (this is what Outlook Express uses), just 
run a network analizer and you'll see. Their WebDAV uses digest 
authentication and cookies, but not SSL as the normal HTTP interface does.
-Malte
 
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