I ran gotmail --debug and here's what it returned. I'm a newbie and trying to learn any help appreciated.
address@hidden ka9qlq]$ gotmail --debug -c /home/.gotmailrc
Gotmail v0.7.9 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Peter Hawkins
Gotmail comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details.
System version is: linux
Perl version is: 5.008
Curl version is: curl 6.5.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl 6.5.2 (SSL 0.9.5)
Getting hotmail index page...
FETCH: http://www.hotmail.com/
command line: curl "http://www.hotmail.com/" -b /tmp/filecoE1gjgotmail_cookies -i -m 600 -D /tmp/file6sRQd7gotmail_headers -A "Mozilla/4.73 [en] (Win98; I)"| tee -a /tmp/gotmail_log
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed
100 236 100 236 0 0 195 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 0:00:00 0
Cookies are
Following redirect to http://loginnet.passport.com/login.srf?id=2&svc=mail&cbid=24325&msppjph=1&tw=0&fs=1&fsa=1&fsat=1296000&lc=1033&_lang=EN
FETCH: http://loginnet.passport.com/login.srf?id=2&svc=mail&cbid=24325&msppjph=1&tw=0&fs=1&fsa=1&fsat=1296000&lc=1033&_lang=EN
command line: curl "http://loginnet.passport.com/login.srf?id=2&svc=mail&cbid=24325&msppjph=1&tw=0&fs=1&fsa=1&fsat=1296000&lc=1033&_lang=EN" -b /tmp/filecoE1gjgotmail_cookies -i -m 600 -D /tmp/file6sRQd7gotmail_headers -A "Mozilla/4.73 [en] (Win98; I)"| tee -a /tmp/gotmail_log
Retrying [1/3]...
Retrying [2/3]...
Retrying [3/3]...
gotmail died with message: An error was encountered getting the page. Command was curl "http://loginnet.passport.com/login.srf?id=2&svc=mail&cbid=24325&msppjph=1&tw=0&fs=1&fsa=1&fsat=1296000&lc=1033&_lang=EN" -b /tmp/filecoE1gjgotmail_cookies -i -m 600 -D /tmp/file6sRQd7gotmail_headers -A "Mozilla/4.73 [en] (Win98; I)"| tee -a /tmp/gotmail_log at /usr//bin/gotmail line 562.