Hotmail Local Client

1. Main Feature
2. System Requirements
3. Installation and Run Instructions
4. Operation Guide
5. Known Problems
6. limitations
7. Miscellaneous
8. The Coming Update
9. Support

Main Feature

1. Periodically check your hotmail mail account, download the new mail in your hotmail inbox.
2. You can read you mail just in this program, (but it's better read using )
3. If you specify you mailbox file as a netscape mbox file, you can read the mail using netscape mail client.
4. MIME format compatible, if the content-type of your mail is text/html or multipart format, all the html is retrieved.
5. Since it is programmed in pure java, you can run it both from windows or unix

System Requirements

•  Any system that have JDK1.*  or JRE 1.*  installed. Download from http://java.sun.com/products if you hadn't installed it.

Installation and Run Instructions

• >From windows:
• Java -classpath %CLASSPATH%;hotmail119.jar [the file your want to save your mail]
• Java -classpath %CLASSPATH%;hotmail119.jar [the file your want to save your mail] UserID Passwd
• If you network runs behind a firewall, then you should specify you proxy this way: 
      Java -classpath %CLASSPATH%;hotmail119.jar -DproxySet=true -DproxyHost=proxy.yamato.ibm.com -DproxyPort=8080 Desktop hotmail.txt 
      (proxy.yamato.ibm.com is the proxy I'm using)
• >From Unix:
• export CLASSPATH=[your JDK dir/bin/classes.zip]
• Java -classpath $CLASSPATH;hotmail119.jar Desktop [FileName] [UserID,Passwd]
•  For test :
• I have create a mail account j23t@hotmail.com , the passwd is well known one start from TP (TP92????)
• You can use this account for test. Do this way 
  Java -classpath %CLASSPATH%;hotmail119.jar hotmail.txt  j23t tp92????
•  How to browse you mail  (I wish you are using netscape commnicator as web browser)
  Since I saved your mail using the same format of Netscape Mailbox. You can browse your mail using Netscape. To do this, You should carry out the following step.
1. Find where your Netscape mailbox located,
2. if you are using communicator, select : edit-->preference-->Mail&Groups-->Mailserver-->More Options the Local Mail directory is what we want As an example, let assume it's "c:/zhq/netmail"
3. Start netscape message center , at local mail, new a folder, name it any way as you like, for now, take "hotmail" for example
4. be sure now, a file named "c:/zhq/netmail/hotmail" exist on your computer
5. run the application this way: 
   Java -classpath %CLASSPATH%;hotmail119.jar Desktop C:/zhq/netmail/hotmail
6. This way, you can browse you mail just at Netscape message center now!

Operation Guide

1.  3 Text Area
1. The top one: about the current update information
2. The mid one: You mail here
3. The lowest one: Debug area, for test only
2. Buttons
1. Press Start to start download
2. Press Stop-->Start to restart
3. Others for test only
3. TextField
1. Enter you userID, Passwd before you start
2. Refresh interval is 15 min by default , you can change it as you like
3. Del after retrieval is not support now.

Known Problems

1. Since I read all the mails in the file your specified as your local mailbox to mem at start up, this may cause mem shortage. This problem will take some to be fixed. May be I will do this at next version.
2. Do not login hotmail at web browser and using my application at the same. The cookie may cause login failure at my application.
3. If you see Enter Inbox failed in Status area, just press Stop-->Start to restart. I guess this problem cause by cookie. If it keep on failed, Click Here. You don't need to login, just reset the cookie this way. (I'm not clear about the way cookie works, can anybody teach me). Then retry Stop-->Start to refresh.

limitations

Miscellaneous

The Comming Update

1.  Mail Coming notify. (Popup a dialog that tell you you have new mail comming)
2.  Del you mail at hotmail inbox.
3. The help menu will works by then. (It do nothing now)
4. Fix of any other problems that reported by you.

Support