Linux+Seamonkey+Sympatico Problem

[bob]

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:09 pm, Manimoto Mushi wrote:
> >From: bob <ican-rZHaEmXdJNJWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>
> >Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> >To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> >Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Linux+Seamonkey+Sympatico Problem
> >Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:27:22 -0500
> >
> >I believe the "hm" in the Sympatico server names refers to "Hotmail" as in
> >outsourced to ...
>
> Yes I found this out as well.
>
> >I wish I could convince someone with the expertise to put a TCP/IP packet
> >trace on the Sympatico/Hotmail-email client interaction.    In particular
> >it
> >would be interesting to compare the packets for Outlook vs. Thunderbird
> > for the same account on the same Sympatico account.    While I suspect
> > the SSL will "mess up" the scientific comparison,    I think there would
> > be a good story in the embrace and extinguish tweek that our friends and
> > Hotmail have apparently done to SSL and TLS "standards" to allow only
> > Outlook to work.
>
> hmm....does Outlook work in Wine on Linux, I wonder?
> If it does, one could then dump the packets and analyze.
> I don't have the expertise to do the analysis but will see if Outlook will
> work on a WinXP machine under Linux+Wine.

Checking the Codeweavers page,  it would appear that there Crossover Linux 
package runs Outlook.    Since Codeweavers is the commercial layer on top of 
WINE I'm going to assume that it runs well under WINE.

bob
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