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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Using KDE in corporate environment - Queries and suggestions
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-03-13 18:35:33
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On Tuesday 13 March 2001 09:55, Malte Starostik wrote:
> 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

Good.  We can then support that I guess. 

Regards,
Dawit A.
/me who's frantically working on the kio_http_ng :)
 
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