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| author | pav <pav@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-09-17 21:47:42 +0800 |
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| committer | pav <pav@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-09-17 21:47:42 +0800 |
| commit | 3da5c735273ce2c621e82c562205c736eea9a3dd (patch) | |
| tree | 4d19378303787337e7e0bb9a345419035f8875c9 /mail/hotwayd | |
| parent | 8e3e4a9504aa49504674d26c01ff8f642c7155f3 (diff) | |
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- Add note that hotmail migrated to regular pop3 service
PR: ports/138743
Submitted by: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> (maintainer)
Feature safe: yes
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr b/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr index 04e2646615ed..a57506f6d76d 100644 --- a/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr +++ b/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ -Hotwayd uses HTTPMail (the same protocol that Outlook Express uses) to access +NOTE: This port is deprecated as of 9/1/2009. +The Hotmail and Windows Live servers no longer support DAV, so hotwayd can +no longer work with those services. Fortunately the servers now support POP3 +directly (via POP3+SSL at pop3.live.com:995) so hotwayd is not needed. + +Hotwayd uses HTTPMail (the same protocol that Outlook Express used) to access servers such as Hotmail. The software acts as a proxy mail server, allowing you to access e-mail on Hotmail and similar servers using standard POP3 mail clients. |