Disconnecting from the phone line
Larry Schmid
larry-schmid@home.com
Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:20:33 -0700
Rod Roark wrote:
>
> 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).
Yea, I was just having too much fun playing Rube Goldberg.....
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Larry