My understanding is that hotmail, lycos, and the other web-based free email accounts deliberately do NOT provide alternate access to your email box.
Their business model is based on being able to push advertising at their users, and people using POP3/pine/etc wouldn't see them. On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:03:07PM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, > Please could someone give me a pointer as to how to use pine to access > my hotmail and lycos accounts?