Accessing HotMail from Delphi (Views: 2141)
Problem/Question/Abstract: Is it possible to access a HotMail account through the POP3 and SMTP? I know its a web front end but I'd like to write a automated application which can send and receive mail using a HotMail account. Answer: HotMail is not accessible through POP/SMTP. you must use their web interface. There is no possible shortcut to read mail but you can open the default HotMail account in new message mode using this ShellExecute call: program dummy; var ToAddress: string; EightSpaces: string; begin ToAddress := 'john@pacbell.net'; // Don't know why but this is required to get the // correct compose address... EightSpaces := ' '; ShellExecute(Handle, PChar('open'), PChar('rundll32.exe'), PChar('C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\HMMAPI.DLL,MailToProtocolHandler' + EightSpaces + ToAddress), nil, SW_NORMAL) end. |