On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:57:44PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Paul Johnson (baloo@ursine.dyndns.org) [020815 18:44]: > > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:11:01PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Note: I'm only half-serious in all of this bickering back and > > > forth. I use mutt at home, but here, I don't have that option. > > > Don't suggest I get a different job that allows me to use linux or > > > anything non-MS either please. > > > > Why not ssh to your home box? You get the additional bonus of > > potentially non-work-related email not going to your work account, > > too, then... > > Not possible... Proxy/firewall only allows ports 21, 80, 110, and 443 > (https ??) and maybe some other(s) that I haven't discovered. Hell, port > 110 was blocked for a while so I had to use Mindspring's web-based mail > program. It was horrid. [Assuming it's a proxy and not just a packet filter] Perhaps you'd want to study httptunnel then. If you can get it to work with your proxy and can live the decreased bandwith that is (TCP/IP over HTTP via (multiple) caching/delaying proxies over TCP/IP isn't exactly going to be fast). <small>Love to try that myself, but I don't have any proxy problems...</small> :-) -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: linux: the choice of a GNU generation (ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93)
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