I finally added Jon Udell's channelroll to the right side of my page. Big thanks to Jenny for her crystal clear instructions! One caveat though: Only this method of calling this Web Service worked: <%params = {}; xml.rpc ("127.0.0.1", 5335, "radio.subs", @params)%>. I do not know why yet but I'll investigate when my Radio scripting skills will be sharper...
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I spent part of the day yesterday trying to install the two Hotmail-to-POP3 gateway I discovered earlier this week. It hasn't been a great experience so far, I had problems with both of them: I started with HTTPMail, because it looked like the simplest one to deploy as it's a pair of Perl scripts. The install was fine but I never managed to get the first script to access the gateway specified. After browsing through the mailing list archive, I found that the agent specified in the source file could be filtered out by Hotmail. I replaced it by "Outlook..." but it didn't improved the situation. I'll take a look at the Ruby version, it seems to work. I download the language, I should take a look, it seems interesting. Meanwhile I sent an e-mail to the mailing list. Hopefully I'll get an answer soon. I then tried to install Hotwayd. It looked simple too: untar/unzip, configure, compile, install. The documentation specified that libxml2 had to be installed first. It was. I tried to "make" and got error messages telling me that three header files were not present on the system. Did a locate, found them. I then modified the source file to include the absolute path to the missing libraries. Recompiled. Now the error messages are telling me that some files in these libraries are not found. I do not have the patience to change everything everywhere. And I know it would be a bad idea. Maybe I should change the path. But before changing the path I made sure I install libxml2-devel, it seems it is necessary when developping/compiling stuff that needs libxml2 functionality. While browsing the forum of HTTPMail, I saw a pointer to another project of the same type called HotPOP3. This one is a service for WinNT. I installed it, had to browse the mailing list again for instructions (which are only bundled with the source code version of this software, not with the binary version) on how to install/use it. This one doesn't work for me yet. I sent a message to the forum and am waiting for an answer. So far installing an Hotmail-to-POP3 hasn't been an easy experience. Whenever I'll have received answers to some of my questions, update this note.
