getlive: Fetch mail from your hotmail live account

SYNOPSIS

getlive --config-file FILE [--verbosity 0..100]

getlive --port port [--verbosity 0..100]

DESCRIPTION

getlive is a utility that fetches mail from your Hotmail/Windows Live account. The mail is then presented to any filter (typically procmail) for further processing or dropping in a local mailbox.

There is a second mode of operation (indicated by the --port option), that makes getlive work as a no-configuration POP3 server that relays requests to Hotmail.

OPTIONS

--config-file: The format for this file is listed below.
--port: This option enables the "FreePops" mode. In this mode, no configuration is necessary, and getlive starts a POP3 server on the port specified. See the FREEPOPS MODE section for more information.
--verbosity: Higher number corresponds to greater output as command runs.

CONFIGURATION FILE

The configuration file takes arguments of the form option = value. Empty lines or lines commented with # are allowed.

UserName

Your Hotmail username, excluding the at-sign and domain.

Password

Your account password, you should restrict access to your configuration file to avoid this information being read by other users.

Domain

The domain for your account, defaults to hotmail.com.

Proxy

Hostname of proxy, if applicable.

ProxyAuth

Password for proxy, if applicable.

Downloaded

File that keeps track of IDs of messages that were fetched already. Default is ${HOME}/.getlive.log.

FetchOnlyUnread

If Yes only messages that are marked unread are fetched. If set to Yes, Downloaded is ignored. Defaults to No.

RetryLimit

Number of times to retry fetching a web page via curl. Defaults to 2.

CurlBin

Command for curl. Default is "curl -k".

Processor

Any command taking the message in mbox format on its stdin and doing something with it. Default is /usr/bin/procmail.

"/bin/cat - >> FetchedMail" might be used to drop directly in a mbox file.
The distribution contains also /usr/share/doc/getlive/examples/SmtpForward.pl and /usr/share/doc/getlive/examples/SmtpAuthForward.pl These can be used to forward the messages to an SMTP server.

Folder

Folder that needs to be fetched. This option must be repeated for each folder you want to fetch. If this option is not present then all folders will be fetched.

MarkRead

Whether the message will be marked read after being downloaded. Note that a message never gets marked in any way if it's not downloaded due to it being already in the Downloaded file. Defaults to No.

Delete

Whether the message will be deleted after being downloaded. Note that a message never gets deleted if it's not downloaded due to it being already in the Downloaded file. Defaults to No.

MoveToFolder

Folder to which the message must be moved after being downloaded. If this argument takes the form @FileName then the folder name is taken from the contents of the file.

This can be used, for example, to enable a spam filter to decide to what folder the message must be moved. That spamfilter would be invoked by the Processor option and then write a folder name (for instance Junk if considered junk) to the file FileName.

Note that a message is not moved if it's not downloaded due to it being already in the Downloaded file.

SkipTrash

Whether the Trash folder handling will be skipped or not. Defaults to No.

BreakOnAlreadyDownloaded

Number of consecutive already downloaded messages after which the search will stop. Useful to avoid slowness on extremely large Downloaded files.

FREEPOPS MODE

When using this mode, the configuration is ignored, and all configuration values are taken from the username used to connect to the POP3 server.

The format for the username is as follows:

[email protected][?Option=Value][&Option=Value][&Option=Value]

With Option=Value pairs from:

folder="FolderName" : The folder as displayed in hotmail for the folder you want to interact with. Defaults to Inbox.

folderid=N: the folderid you want to interact with:

  1: Inbox
  2: Trash
  3: Sent
  5: Junk

markread=1: It will mark mails as read on your hotmail account if you read them via the the Pop3 Server.

Note that if your mail client is configured to delete messages after download, getlive will delete them from Hotmail.

The password passed to the POP3 server will be used to authenticate with Hotmail.

AUTHOR

getlive was written by Jos De Laender <[email protected]>.

This manual page was adapted by Tyler Trafford <[email protected]> and Martin Ferrari <[email protected]> from the included Manual, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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