Check hotmail/yahoo with Kmail

To install on Debian/Ubuntu:

apt-get install freepops
sudo freepops-updater-dialog

To download sent mail folder set the username as username@webmail.com?folder=Sent.
If not specified "Inbox" is assumed.

With kmail, one can create seperate directories (ex. yahoo [inbox], yahoo [sent]) and associate accounts with these folders. This way messages remain more organized and they can simply be dragged and dropped to the gmail's "all mail" directory later on, to save all the mails on google's massive servers with ever increasing inbox space forever, for a greater webmail experience and excellent searching capability.

Good Luck, Happy webmailing !!

Checking RoundCube webmails from console

I wrote this script to check "Today's" new email for the webmail account I have with NICTA, as obviously opening a new browser window, logging in and checking emails every hour was becoming a pain in the neck ... and ya, of course for the reason too, that konsole is more fun ;) ...

#!/bin/bash

read -s -p "enter password: " pass
echo

curl -s -k -c nicta.cookie -d "_action=login&_user=NICTA%2FXXX%2FYYY.ZZZ&_pass=$pass" 'https://webmail.nicta.com.au/' -L 2>&1 1>/dev/null

curl -s -k -b nicta.cookie -d "_action=login&_user=NICTA%2FXXX%2FYYY.ZZZ&_pass=$pass" "https://webmail.nicta.com.au/" -L -o - | grep "Today " | sed -e :a -e "s/Today/`date +%d:%m:%y`/g;s/ \;//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;/<;/N;//ba" | awk '{print $2}' rm nicta.cookie

** The script could be made more fancier, some IF/ELSE in the proper place should do the trick. I'll finish the script soon as I find some free time.