How to check my HotMail, ExciteMail or YahooMail accounts automatically?

[Joan Verdaguer]

Hi,
I'm trying to program an application to check user's mail from HotMail,
ExciteMail and
other web based mail accounts.

How can I do this ?
Are any similar applications out there ? Any source code ?

Thanks.

[Gregory Junker]

IIRC, these services don't offer POP3...how do you plan to grab the mail?
Best learn HTTP and learn to parse/interpret HTML...furthermore, these
services make their money on banner advertising, which requires a user to
actually view the ad. You may run into legal barriers that disallow this
activity...

noble goal, tho...

greg

Joan Verdaguer wrote in message <7spv6o$9d1$1...@diana.bcn.ttd.net>...

[Mikhail A]

There used to be a program called CWebMail that checked HotMail accounts
via pop3 (I've never used it, but some of my friends did). I used to
connect to CWEBMail's server, CWebMail's serve would connect to hotmail
and check the messages...

I myself after NetAddress becaome paid, and we switched ISP's decided to
be with Hotmail.
But after a week I became so incredibly sick of it's servers (no, my
connection is fast; I have cable modem) that I wrote a simple program on
Delphi: pop3 server + http client + some parsing
but I still have to logon because:
1) my program somehow can't handle message with ID#95 and i am too
lazy to debug it
2) I was too lazy to implement DELE function
so microsoft gets their ad impressions.

now, when you log into hotmail, you go for one second to secure area;
and then back to unsecure. Probably it's done to make impossible
programs like mine - i guess it's not very easy to implement SSL.
anyway, just replace https:// with http:// and you'll be fine!

Mikhail

[Eric Taillandier]

Hie

yahoo
i use the same url(get from my browser to get the good html page ) for
login
but i dinot try to send a message to the windows to put char and clik on
the button
Is it your solution ?

eric

[Mr Todd Hampton]

just send the form, no need to click the button

inet1.navigate("http://{whatever the scripts url is
here}var1=val1?var2=val2?

If it is a pop up window, especially if it is an applet pop-up, I
shell a winbatch. Not the most elegant solution, but I've found that
often my programs are locked when a login pop up is present.

On Sat, 02 Oct 1999 17:38:55 +0200, Eric Taillandier <er...@igtech.fr>
wrote:

[Joan Verdaguer]

Eric Taillandier <er...@igtech.fr> escribió en el mensaje de noticias
37F6270F...@igtech.fr...

> Hie
>
> yahoo
> i use the same url(get from my browser to get the good html page ) for
> login
> but i dinot try to send a message to the windows to put char and clik on
> the button
> Is it your solution ?
>
> eric

Hi Eric

I'm using the WebBrowser control. I log all the links, buttons and fields
the user interacts
with in a file. Then, reading the file and reproducing user events using
IHTMLElement
methods, the final page can be obtained.
But I think is not a good solution using the WebBrowser control. There must
be easiest
ways, or at least, more robust ways to get a page. Any idea ?

Thanks.