From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Was "...questions about...email" -> orgmode + email + company firewall
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:12:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=RR5c0p11MBGRFAPYCm9vs=r+avpnEXPnpJkp6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lj5qn81j.fsf@sajida.noorul.com>
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com>wrote:
> 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.
>
>
True... though this is why I referenced the webmail extension. It works. I
wondered if there was anything like that for other types of email systems.
At a company of 70k employees world-wide and 10k at my location... I'm not
planning on asking them to open up some ports for me :)
John
> Thanks and Regards
> Noorul
>
>
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2010-10-21 18:33 Was "...questions about...email" -> orgmode + email + company firewall John Hendy
2010-10-22 4:52 ` Noorul Islam K M
2010-10-22 13:12 ` John Hendy [this message]
2010-10-24 19:12 ` David Maus
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