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Diffstat (limited to 'mail/hotwayd')
| -rw-r--r-- | mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr b/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr index 04e2646615ed..a57506f6d76d 100644 --- a/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr +++ b/mail/hotwayd/pkg-descr @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ -Hotwayd uses HTTPMail (the same protocol that Outlook Express uses) to access +NOTE: This port is deprecated as of 9/1/2009. +The Hotmail and Windows Live servers no longer support DAV, so hotwayd can +no longer work with those services. Fortunately the servers now support POP3 +directly (via POP3+SSL at pop3.live.com:995) so hotwayd is not needed. + +Hotwayd uses HTTPMail (the same protocol that Outlook Express used) to access servers such as Hotmail. The software acts as a proxy mail server, allowing you to access e-mail on Hotmail and similar servers using standard POP3 mail clients. |