On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 07:38, Claude Jones wrote: > > > >You can configure gmail to allow POP, keep a copy and archive > >it after POP pickup. Then you can read mostly from your > >favorite mailer and only use the gmail web interface when > >you are at a different machine or want to follow a thread > >back beyond what you have deleted locally. > > > > > > > I'm curious. I tried this but could not get it work, and concluded that > it was our corporate (Symantec Enterprise Firewall) firewall. Are you > going out to gmail from behind a firewall, and if so, did you have to > enable anything special? Mine allows all outbound tcp but you would at least have to allow port 995 for pop with ssl. I use my local smtp server for sending for the account but the MTA can assign the From: address as the gmail account and does this automatically on replies. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
