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hi,

here are the steps to configure your free hotmail account on evolution mail client as a POP3 mail in ubuntu

well.. open a terminal and copy & paste those commands or write them ..as u like

first make sure that your system is up to date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inetutils-inetd
sudo apt-get install hotway hotsmtp
sudo gedit /etc/inetd.conf

the last command will open u a file “inetd.conf”

append this line to it

2500		stream	tcp	nowait	nobody	/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/hotsmtp

then save and exit and write this line

sudo /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart

then startup evolution or the mail client u use and edit the configuration as the following

Receive Server type: POP
Server: 127.0.0.1
Username: xxx@hotmail.com (same as above)
Security: No encryption
Authentication type: Password
(Remember password checkbox is up to you)

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)
(Optional Remember password checkbox)

well.. after i have did all those  evolution could send but didn’t recieve mail getting this error

-ERR Unable to find folder inbox on remote server

so i used another program to recieve my mail

just write this commad in the terminal

sudo apt-get install freepops

and edit in the mail client the server ip:port as follows

Receive Server type: POP
Server: 127.0.0.1:2000
Username: xxx@hotmail.com (same as above)
Security: No encryption
Authentication type: Password
(Remember password checkbox is up to you)

and then voila !!

have a nice hotmail

Refrences:

for the hotwayd http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=200408

for the freepops http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=968821

bye bye MS !!

i said those words one day that i started to install Linux

i had a fear that i go back to windows a day or more after i install it, but now i dont think that i’m going back to windows

i can feel that my computer feels democracy

every time i look on the requirments for a software , game or windows i look on the minimum requirments section to see if my PC will handle it or not as i know that the recommended requirments will be not in my PC

with linux i saw the minimum , recommended and searched for any other requirments to see

this is the recomended requirments published on Ubuntu official website

• 700 MHz x86 processor
• 384 MB of system memory (RAM)
• 8 GB of disk space
• Graphics card capable of 1024×768 resolution

• Sound card

• A network or Internet connection

lol, i feel that i can run this OS on a gameboy and it will run smoothly

let’s see some features that i found in Ubuntu

1-Disk Space

i’ve been working on Ubuntu for 2 weeks now with alot of programs installed

1557 installed program as the software manager says

i’ve made the root drive ( C:/ ) 19 GB for it

now i have 12 GB Free

on windows i get Low Dosk space after 1 week

2-Synaptic Package Manager

i doubt that one day there will be something like this in windows

this manager is configured on repositories eg a store on the Internet where software package sources exist

u just search for the program or what the program does and it will get u some for u

u just check and install

i remember i once used something like it on windows from the add/remove programs but the repository was on a local network

nothing was online

in addition to synaptic gets u all the programs open source, free or non free according to the repositories

3-compiz

in the posts i wrote about vista i said i liked the effects, now i can’t say that vista had effects at all

in Ubuntu i enabled the effects to see what they have and i found all those effects

note: this is not my video i found it on youtube but all those effects are working very smoothly in my PC

go and check for other videos there

4-Booting and shutting down

when i shut down my computer thats because i want to leave the computer

so when i press shutdown i don’t want to wait 1 or 2 minuets watching windows dying

in ubuntu it shuts down in less that 30 seconds

and loads in the same time or less also

in Vista i used to wait for more than 1 minuit to hibernate the PC

now ubuntu also hibernates in the 30 seconds

5-The Community

every single problem i faced with the drivers,software packages , themes or even  the desktop wall papers i found them on the ubuntu forums www.ubuntuforums.org

and even there is an unsolvable bug in the OS u’ll find someone posting a workasound there

6-No Virus can affect me (almost)

i donot have to care about using antivirus as viruses can not affect my OS

but also i insert the USB disks in my PC and delete the viruses manualy ( Torturing them )

so why don’t u try it

here are some motivations that affected me

1-Ubuntu Interpid Ibex can deal with NTFS file system so u wont lose or have to move ur data or format ur disk

2-if u r coding C# u can install “monodevelop” project and program C# , ASP.Net , till now they support up to framework 2 and Linq

3-there are programs that are exe and u want to run them on linux ( as linux doesn’t run exe files )

there is a software named “wine” that runs EXEs on linux

it even runs games as warcraft and programs as photoshop

4-there are a variety of software packages which can be installed that does very cool things

5-openoffice 3.0 can open and edit all what Microsoft office does

and the most important thing that u’ll feel ur PC’s Powers

to be honest the only problem i faced here till now is the mail client

i used to use Windows live mail to manage all my mails including my hotmail mail

where my account is free one and to manage it as POP3 i have to pay some

but windows live mail manages it as HTTP mail

i found some solutions but they are not working effectively

i hope i find a solution soon

and i’m sure i will isA

Just blogging from inside the HPC exam hall

where the exam is open “anything u can” and u have to get ur mind to work

i have half an hour for the time to end

c u soon

hi..

long time since i last wrote here

frankly alot of things have changed

the most obvious change that happened is my Operating System

yes the “Vista” after three months

actually it didn’t crash but it almost crashed more than a time and recovered which was a nice feature there “more stable than XP” thats what i feel

but

my poor laptop was sweating from vista anyway

and my disk was alarming every while “Low Disk Space”

and many times -not often- the computer just freezes…

i’ve attended a session lately which was talking about somethings of the new features in vista like the ready boost, super fetch and some other things

well..

the ready boost acts as a cache between the RAM and The Disk as i understood

but i have a 1.5 GB of RAM.. i just feel that its wasted :S

so i get a USB 2 flash to increase my computer’s performance

something like hanging a vitamins bag beside my computer’s bed to survive

i never accepted that ready boost idea or even tried it

and about the “Super Fetch”

it’s basically that the OS keeps watching what are you doing when when u open your computer and see what is the most used apps so it preloads it in the memory when the windows is starting (assuming that windows loads in a short time so we can sacrifice some and i have alot of un-needed memory )

so i didn’t like it any way

and one of the most important thing that made me remove it was that many of my friends made fun of my computer when it was operated by Vista

actually i was one of the people making fun of my computer

sry.. i had to

when i used my computer to be a server for an ACM-ICPC contest ( any computer can be a server )

we use a software called PC^2 to communicate during the contest

about 30+ PC was logged in to this program

and during the contest the computer just got frozen

and the solution was to unplug it and reopen it but in safe mode

but thanx to Allah the contest passed normally

so i had to move

i didn’t like the idea to get back to XP

so i moved further

moved to ‘The OSOS‘
yes.. that far

and i’m compleeetly happy with this move and i’m gonna write about it soon isA

c u soon MS