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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