Mail fetching problem

[Roger Grosswiler]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:26 +0000, Jim Higson wrote:
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>>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?
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>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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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