Linux+Seamonkey+Sympatico Problem

[James Knott]

bob wrote:
> 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.
>   

If Bell is forcing customers to use specific software, perhaps a few 
complaints to the CRTC, newspapers, MPs, net neutrality advocates etc. 
would be in order.

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