Mail fetching problem

[Paul Howarth]

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.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>