Comments on: Circumvent the firewall; access web-mail through pop3 using HTTP

By: Priyatam

Priyatam — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:03:06 +0000

Interesting however in most setups where public mail is blocked, user doesn’t have admin privileges to install and 90% of the time it’s a windows machine for the developer. Now, the only solution could be an eclipse plugin which does all this silently over http. (eclipse plugins can be installed over the internet without admin privs).

Any tools for the same?

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:32:28 +0000

if a corporate firewall is blocking pop3 access, chances are it’s doing the same thing with IMAP. all the same, i didn’t realize pine works with imap until recently, as does gmail, once it’s enabled.

inbox-path = {imap.gmail.com/novalidate-cert/imap/ssl/user=rtc@gmail.com}inbox
smtp-server = {smtp.gmail.com/user=rtc@gmail.com/ssl

when you delete an email in pine via imap, gmail archives it.