Can an "normal" Mailclient pickup Mails via a Webmail-Account?

[Roger Grosswiler]

I have a mailaccount, which i only can access via webmail.

Now i would like to have my normal mailclient (claws, evolution...) picking them, so i
can read my mails with usual mailclient.

Is there any possibility/client/plugin available for this?

i dont want it to get forwarded to another account.

Roger

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 28 November 2008 08:20:40 Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> I have a mailaccount, which i only can access via webmail.
>
> Now i would like to have my normal mailclient (claws, evolution...) picking
> them, so i can read my mails with usual mailclient.
>
> Is there any possibility/client/plugin available for this?
>
> i dont want it to get forwarded to another account.

As long as you know the pop/imap/smtp settings for the webmail provider, any 
mail client would be able to do that.  Gmail gives clear instructions.  I 
can't speak for others.

Anne

[Roger Grosswiler]

> On Friday 28 November 2008 08:20:40 Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > I have a mailaccount, which i only can access via webmail.
> >
> > Now i would like to have my normal mailclient (claws, evolution...) picking
> > them, so i can read my mails with usual mailclient.
> >
> > Is there any possibility/client/plugin available for this?
> >
> > i dont want it to get forwarded to another account.
>
> As long as you know the pop/imap/smtp settings for the webmail provider, any
> mail client would be able to do that.  Gmail gives clear instructions.  I
> can't speak for others.
> Anne

Hi Anne,

Of course, this is if pop/imap-ports from them are opened. I look for a solution, where
my regular mailclient would connect via webmail.

Roger

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 28 November 2008 09:28:46 Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > On Friday 28 November 2008 08:20:40 Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > > I have a mailaccount, which i only can access via webmail.
> > >
> > > Now i would like to have my normal mailclient (claws, evolution...)
> > > picking them, so i can read my mails with usual mailclient.
> > >
> > > Is there any possibility/client/plugin available for this?
> > >
> > > i dont want it to get forwarded to another account.
> >
> > As long as you know the pop/imap/smtp settings for the webmail provider,
> > any mail client would be able to do that.  Gmail gives clear
> > instructions.  I can't speak for others.
>
> Of course, this is if pop/imap-ports from them are opened. I look for a
> solution, where my regular mailclient would connect via webmail.

That sounds like a contradiction in terms, to me.  Webmail is, as its name 
implies, mail through a web browser.  I don't understand what you are trying 
to do.

Anne

[Matej Cepl]

On 2008-11-28, 09:28 GMT, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> Of course, this is if pop/imap-ports from them are opened. 
> I look for a solution, where
> my regular mailclient would connect via webmail.

If you need webscrapping of webmail, then there is fetchyahoo and 
gotmail (the latter one is really old, so maybe there is 
something newer). These programs are (obviously) totally specific 
for particular provider, so don't expect them for much more than 
the biggest webmail providers.

Matěj

[Jon Stanley]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Matej Cepl  wrote:
> If you need webscrapping of webmail, then there is fetchyahoo and
> gotmail (the latter one is really old,

There's also evolution-connector, which will grab mail from an
Exchange server via OWA.  It doesn't really work all that well, and
breaks with each major new version of Exchange (not surprising really
on either count).