You can configure your Evolution Mail Client  to send and receive your Hotmail messages using the following procedure. However, take note that you need to have the WebDav Service from Hotmail for this to work. You will usually have this with a subscription service, not the free account.

First update your system by opening terminal and type;

sudo apt-get update

Then you will need to install the inet daemon

sudo apt-get install inetutils-inetd

Next you will need to install a 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 only hotway gets linked to your inetd.conf file, so we have to edit it to add another entry.

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.  I prefer this option, but if you want to remove the messages from the server change the line to add “-r” to the end.  The line should look like this;

pop3 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/hotwayd –r

You also need to add a line to get hotsmtpd working properly. 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. You may be faced with the first time configuration wizard when you launch Evolution or you may have to go to Edit->Preferences and hit the Mail Accounts button on the left. The setting information should be exactly as it appears below.

Email Address: xxx@hotmail.com (fill in your Hotmail e-mail address)
Receive Server type: POP
Server: 127.0.0.1
Username: xxx@hotmail.com (same as above)
Security: No encryption
Authentication type: Password
The Remember password checkbox is optional

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: xxx@hotmail.com (same as above)
The Remember password checkbox is optional

Now if you see the following error screen;

That means that you don’t have the proper Hotmail account, you will need to upgrade it in order to use this service.

Tags | Linux, Ubuntu