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From: Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Was "...questions about...email" -> orgmode + email + company firewall
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:22:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lj5qn81j.fsf@sajida.noorul.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=k+TiwL2vnoH=n5MDJWFLqpKCtVaRaSLBFkHMW@mail.gmail.com> (John Hendy's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:33:59 -0500")

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> I followed the conversation about email writing with org-mode and *loved*
> it. I would absolutely like to live in emacs for email as it offers so many
> neat tricks. My problem has to do with how to set up pop/imap access while
> at work. I can use the web interface just fine, but I've never succeeded in
> using a client trying to access via pop/imap (like Thunderbird) and have
> simply figured it was due to firewall.
>
> Recently, I was finally able to get Thunderbird working since their webmail
> extension [1] added gmail support. I just succeeded with pop (I'd prefer
> imap, though, but apparently it's not possible).
>
> My question is whether gnus or some other text-based email program that
> emacs can use has some method of doing whatever this webmail extention is
> doing. I think it's somehow going through port 80 and getting messages that
> way, but I could be mistaken. In the past, I've tried "telnet
> imap.gmail.com993" and "telnet
> pop.gmail.com 995" and never been able to connect.
>

It looks like at you work place they are blocking imaps and pops
ports. I think you should be contacting System/Network Admin at your
office for this.

Thanks and Regards
Noorul

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-21 18:33 Was "...questions about...email" -> orgmode + email + company firewall John Hendy
2010-10-22  4:52 ` Noorul Islam K M [this message]
2010-10-22 13:12   ` John Hendy
2010-10-24 19:12 ` David Maus

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