From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
Subject: pop access thru a firewall?
Date: 06 Oct 2000 08:40:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ruog0mat7dy.fsf_-_@g.wolfram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010061304.e96D4ML15425@zsh.2y.net>
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?
Thanks -
bw
--
Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wri.com/billw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-06 13:40 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 ` Bill White [this message]
2000-10-06 14:20 ` pop access thru a firewall? ShengHuo ZHU
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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