Paul Howarth wrote:
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:26 +0000, Jim Higson wrote:
At my university they don't allow pop3 access from outside their network, but
I can ssh and ftp them. They provide webmail off campus, but I'd much rather
use a 'proper' client.
I'm thinking it might be possible to automatically open an ssh connection,
call inc on their machine (to transfer the mail to my remote home dir) then
use ftp to copy it to my machine.
Before I start hacking it up, has anyone done somthing like this before or
know of any prexisting tools?
Are you sure they don't provide pop3s (encrypted pop3, port 995) that
you could access from anywhere? If that's available, it could save you
some hassle.
Paul.
Do they allow perhaps IMAP? Just try to connect on port 143. It's
similar to POP, it just leaves all messages on their server and just
loads the header. Messages to read will be loaded on demand, this
decreases net-traffic. Just try to connect via imap.
HTH
Roger
