Gmail thread properly?

[Les Mikesell]

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.

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  Les Mikesell
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