The power of information: Hotway

Here is some information about Hotway.

Hotwayd (hotway daemon) is a program with which one can access various webmail accounts, such as hotmail, from within a POP3 mail reader.
In Fedora 10 I compiled the source files for x86_64 and found the following items are required in order to get it working properly:

xinetd
requires the file /etc/xinetd.d/hotwayd:
service hotwayd { disable = no type = unlisted socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = nobody groups = yes server = /usr/local/sbin/hotwayd log_on_failure += USERID log_on_success += PID HOST EXIT port = 110 } If you don't want hotway to listen on the POP3 port (110), for instance if you already have a POP3 mail program running, then in the value for 'port' you can fill out 1100 instead of 110, or any port that is not in use yet on your computer.
restart xinetd
Restart xinetd by typing as root:
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
check if hotway is working and properly served by xinetd
type in a terminal, no need to be root:
telnet 127.0.0.1 110 Or 1100 if you chose that as hotway port, or any other port you chose.
If you get something like Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused Then you might need to check whether your /etc/hosts.allow allows access to hotway.
Therefore, make sure the following lines are in your file /etc/hosts.allow: hotwayd: 127.0.0.1

Last update: 2009-04-24
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