Using webmail with your email client

Trying to use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, or AOL with Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail (the Mozilla Suite's mail component)? Below are some options to add webmail access capabilities to Thunderbird.

Extension

The Web-Mail extension for Thunderbird enables access to Hotmail, Yahoo and Lycos webmail. Most of the webmail components won't work with Thunderbird v1.0.7 since the security fixs are blocking the cookies being set. It does work with 1.5 beta1.

External programs

• YPOPs!: Open source Yahoo! Mail proxy program for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Also see these setup instructions for Thunderbird, with screenshots.
• YoSucker: Open source Yahoo! Mail proxy program written in Perl.
• Blue HttpMail: Open source C++ library.
• hotwayd: Open source Hotmail proxy program for Linux.
• MrPostman: Open source proxy program for Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, and more written in Java.
• FreePOPs: Open source extensible proxy with Lua scripting for AOL, Hotmail, Netscape, Yahoo! and more.
• Hotmail Popper: For MSN and Hotmail on Windows. Costs $17.50.

See also

• Using AOL Mail with Mozilla
• Using Gmail with Thunderbird and Mozilla Suite
• Using Netscape Mail with Thunderbird
• Using webmail as your email client

External links

• Using Thunderbird with Netscape webmail
• MozillaZine Forums: More programs.
• Mozillazine thread on the webmail extension