Disconnecting from the phone line

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Author: Rod Roark
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Subject: Disconnecting from the phone line
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/