I installed both gotmail and hotwayd and am hoping to retreive qwest msn mail through KMail. I'll even settle for Thunderbird.
I have searched the forums here, but it really didn't answer my questions. Maybe because I'm still a noob when it comes to this.

Can someone please help me get this qwest msn mail to work with either KMail (preferred) or Thunderbird?
it seems they do use that HTTP access like any other hotmail/msn account.
Qwest/MSN is impossible in searching for any answers and any "help" you see does not mean 'email us' like I was hoping. I'll stop before I continue ranting on this, just been wasting my time and getting in loops with Qwest MSN with no help.

I use Mandriva Linux 2007.1 Spring, and like I said, I use KMail, will even settle with Thunderbird. I think I have both installed. At least downloaded and the first part installed.

Have you read the INSTALL and the READ_ME files for both of them? I haven't used gotmail but I know hotwayd is simple to set up if you follow their instructions.

I can't remember which one it was, but it was talking about doing some sort of /.configure, make, this and that, and I'm like, where is the hotwayd folder? it's no where to be found, except I think in /usr/share/doc/hotwayd, but that is not accessible easily. and I dont even think those files that I need are there.

Have you downloaded the hotwayd package or the getmail package? Or did you use a package manager to download and install it for you?

second one sounds closer. it's an rpm. both are the same, and i dont see any folders to my knowledge.

I would suggest just downloading the source (tar.gz or tar.bz2) and installing manually as described in the README or INSTALL file.

sorry for delay, finally got around to this. I downloaded the other type; tar bz2.

I get this error when I use the "./configure" command:

[jeremy@localhost hotwayd-0.8.4]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/bin/sh: /home/jeremy/Backup: No such file or directory
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config
checking libxml2 version... 2.6.27
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for sasl_decode64 in -lsasl2... no
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for stdint-types....... "(putting them into ac-stdint.h)"
checking for uintptr_t... yes
checking for uint64_t... yes
... seen our uintptr_t in stdint.h (uint64_t too)
creating ac-stdint.h : _AC_STDINT_H
checking for int_least32_t... yes
checking for int_fast32_t... yes
..adding include stdint.h
... seen good stdint.h inttypes
... seen good uint64_t
... DONE ac-stdint.h
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for gethostname... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strstr... yes
checking for strtoul... yes
checking for getnameinfo... yes
checking arpa/inet.h usability... yes
checking arpa/inet.h presence... yes
checking for arpa/inet.h... yes
checking netinet/in.h usability... yes
checking netinet/in.h presence... yes
checking for netinet/in.h... yes
checking sys/socket.h usability... yes
checking sys/socket.h presence... yes
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking for struct sockaddr_storage... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating hotsmtpd/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating hotsmtpd/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands


Configure results:
------------------------------------------
Building hotwayd: yes
Building hotsmtpd: no
You are missing cyrus-sasl v2 required by hotsmtpd to authenticate.
Hotsmtpd will not be compiled unless you install this library
and re-run configure. The cyrus-sasl v2 library is available from
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/ or from your distribution
packages. If you decide to use the RPM the make sure you have
the cyrus-sasl-devel package (as well as plain authentication
modules) installed as well!
------------------------------------------
[jeremy@localhost hotwayd-0.8.4]$

as an rpm anyway, I installed the hotsmtpd. no luck, still says the same. it shows a link to get this cyrus-sasl v2, but it doesn't look like the site exists anymore. nothing is coming up. I did install this cyrus-sasl devel, but that doesn't seem to grant me much luck either.

hello? i'm quite stuck still.
is there something else besides hotdway? I'm using Mandriva 2007 Spring; this distro I know uses RPM's, and I guess even tbz2 or whatever; and whatever else; I don't know.