Accessing dot mac email using the terminal
Is it possible to access one's dot mac email account using the terminal?
Thanks-
db
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Hm, Windows has this dang tendency to make simple things hard :-/
First note that Putty won't help you much, because it allows you to log into remote SSH servers, but I don't think it gives you a "local shell", i.e. replace or extend the normal DOS shell (or whatever it's called nowadays) that comes with Windows.
That said, I don't know whether you can find Windows ports of some Unix tool that would help you somewhere in the "vicinity" of Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/ or so ... I don't use Windows enough to know that
My personal solution to a similar problem is to rent a Linux root server, together with a few friends, which gives us all a platform to perform anything in the internet as long as we have an SSH capable computer where we are.
If you have an ADSL flatrate you could even leave a computer at home on and SSH into that...
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