From: ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: pop access thru a firewall?
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:20:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200010061420.e96EKaf15741@zsh.2y.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ruog0mat7dy.fsf_-_@g.wolfram.com>
Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
> On Fri Oct 06 2000 at 08:04, ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> said:
>
> > You could use POP3 to access Yahoo mails (after sign up the
> > option). It doesn't depend on webmail.el .
>
> Hey - that's nifty.
>
> ,----[ ~/.gnus ]
> | [...]
> | (setq mail-sources
> | '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/billw")
> | (pop :server "pop.mail.yahoo.com"
> | :user "myusername"
> | :password "mypassword"
> | :dontexpunge nil)))
> | [...]
> `----
>
> After a restart of emacs and gnus, gnus hangs/waits after loading
> pop3.el, probably because I'm behind a firewall. Is there some
> straightforward way to access a pop server thru a firewall?
I have a primitive package to workaround the firewall by advising
open-network-steam. I haven't tested many features, but to access
POP3/NNTP via HTTP tunnel works. It is at
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/zsh/hacks/firewall.el
ShengHuo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-06 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-28 14:11 webmail not fetching my-deja mail Bill White
2000-09-28 16:40 ` Bill White
2000-09-28 18:43 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-10-06 12:42 ` most stable webmail site? Bill White
2000-10-06 13:04 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-10-06 13:40 ` pop access thru a firewall? Bill White
2000-10-06 14:20 ` ShengHuo ZHU [this message]
2000-10-06 15:47 ` Bill White
2000-10-06 16:09 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-10-06 16:25 ` Bill White
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