Disconnecting from the phone line

Rod Roark rod@sunsetsystems.com
Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:56:48 -0700


On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Larry Schmid wrote:
> Rod Roark wrote:
> > 
> > Or perhaps you can tell Exchange to forward your mail to an account
> > that does support pop/imap.
> 
> Outgoing pop connections are denied at the firewall, as is ssh.  Telnet
> and ftp, however, are not.  I run sshd on port 23 at home so I can get
> to my stuff from work.  Since I don't use ftp, I could forward
> everything here from Exchange, run qpopper on port 21, pull it back with
> fetchmail on my workstation and then use Mailtool.  :^)  

Hmm, how about forwarding mail internally?  Just run Postfix or whatever 
on your desktop at work, with local mail delivery (no POP needed).

Cheers,

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/