If you have a Unix account on any box outside your firewall that CAN get to the mail server, and to which to you can make an ssh connection, then you could set up a secure tunnel from your Mac to that box, and read your mail as if it was served on your Mac. Once you have the tunnel running you just configure your mail client to get mail from localhost (127.0.0.1).
All traffic running across the tunnel is encrypted which is a bonus.
The command to create the secure tunnel for POP mail (done in Terminal) takes the form
sudo ssh -L 110:<m>:110 -L 25:<m>:25 <b> -g -v -l <u>
where
<m> is the IP address or domain name of the external mail server <b> is that outside box that is going to come to your rescue and <u> is your username on the unix box <b>
[Pretty sure the command will need to be run via sudo because the ports in question are privileged]
e.g. sudo ssh -L 110:mail.myisp.com:110 -L 25:mail.myisp.com:25 my.friendly.unix.box.com -g -v -l laurent
What that command is saying is to make a tunnel that creates ports 25 and 110 locally, and run a connection out via the box "my.friendly.unix.box.com" into ports 25 and 110 of the external mail server "mail.myisp.com". You can visualize a duplex cable connecting the needed ports on the mail server, via the box b, into your Mac, thus allowing you to send and receive mail using localhost. Leave your mail account and password details the same as they are now, because of course in reality it is the external mail server that is validating them.
Just create the ports you normally use - e.g. 25,110 for POP and 25 and either 143 or 993 for IMAP.
You can of course forward any port this way - e.g. port 80 to get to blocked web sites.
All built into Mac OS X, but if you're not using a Mac inside the firewall, but a Windows box, you can do a similar thing using the freeware tool 'putty'.
Gavin Tiplady
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________________________________________________________ 'Yes,' said Joseph, 'and I was sitting at home looking for Ephesians, and says I to myself, "'Tis nothing but Corinthians and Thessalonians in this danged Testament," when who should come in but Henery there: "Joseph," he said, "the sheep have blasted theirselves -" ' On 28/02/2004, at 5:09 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
The security folks here again have strike: I can no longer use mail2web to
read my personal email form behind the firewall. I can not even get my mail
using the Verizon web site, so they're not only blocking some specific sites
(although it could still be possible), but I think they're blocking
something in the TCP/IP request.
Anybody knows a workaround, besides finding another job?
-Laurent.
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