Address Books from Email Services

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anjanesh
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Address Books from Email Services

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Hi

Is there a way to get the Address Books from Email Services like Y!, Hotmail, Gmail etc ?
I understand this is possible using LDAP ? Do these email providers supply addressess through LDAP ?

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GMail offers POP access, Hotmail refuses any remote connection (although Outlook could apparently access it). Not sure about Yahoo - I wouldn't think they do.
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Post by m3mn0n »

Yahoo does allow it. But it is not enabled by default.

You need to tell users to go to their 'Mail Options' page and then 'POP Access and Forwarding' under the 'Management' section.

Hotmail has a non-standard method for mail delivery and it seems as if it's exclusive to Microsoft services (MSN Explorer, MSN Messenger, Outlook Express, Outlook, etc).
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Post by anjanesh »

When did Yahoo start free POP and SMTP ? I thought they charged $20 a yr for that.
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