From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Noorul Islam K M Subject: Re: Was "...questions about...email" -> orgmode + email + company firewall Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:22:24 +0530 Message-ID: <87lj5qn81j.fsf@sajida.noorul.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53316 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P99cS-0002DR-5x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:52:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P99cR-0000pD-30 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:52:43 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:54290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P99cQ-0000p4-RH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:52:42 -0400 Received: by gxk4 with SMTP id 4so358253gxk.0 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:52:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (John Hendy's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:33:59 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Hendy Cc: emacs-orgmode John Hendy 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