Archive for February, 2009
HotMail enables POP3
As per Windows Live blog entry HotMail is now available via POP3 to users in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. POP3 will be enabled for other countries later on.
Using POP3 allows you to access HotMail via your favorite email client like Outlook, Thunderbird or Evolution. POP3 also makes it easier to access HotMail via your Phone/PDA.
Below are the configuration values to access HotMail using POP3
POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes
Configure Proxy for Amarok on GNOME
Amarok is an excellent music player that uses some core KDE components (like KDElibs) and can be installed independent of KDE on Ubuntu. One issue with this however is that it does not read the system wide proxy settings from GNOME. The proxy settings under “Settings -> Configure Amarok -> Configure engine” only work for Streaming and hence if you are behind the firewall you cannot access the lyrics service or fetch cover art from the internet. This is easy to fix.
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