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An even easier way
Authored by: SOX on Dec 19, '05 11:34:48AM

THe issue is separating the outbound and inbound function.
When I move around I have different ISPs. Sometimes I can't even use one of the ISPs because for example, it's web-mail only (not POP) or the building I'm in blocks downloads on port 110. I'd still like to be able to compose an e-mail with an given reply-to address regardless of the accessibility of inbound mail.



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An even easier way
Authored by: xSmurf on Dec 19, '05 05:14:39PM

Maybe you could use ssh to tunnel port 110?
I do that a lot, my school blocks everything except 80 8080 and 443. I already use 80 and 8080 (well I'd used 443 but it's not as important) so I run ssh on port 443. This also has the advantage that 443 (SSL) is normally encrypted and so is SSH making it a bit more difficult for the sysadmins to figure me out... been running like this for the past semester with no problems. But maybe you wanna check with your IT guy first (else you decided to put a prank on him and replace his coffee sugar with salt last 1st of April ;o)

Check around, there are a gazilion hints for tunneling.

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incoming/outgoing account distinction
Authored by: sjk on Dec 19, '05 08:49:09PM

Re: THe issue is separating the outbound and inbound function.

I wish more mail apps supported distinct outgoing (SMTP) and incoming (IMAP, POP) accounts. In Mulberry, any mail address you use is associated with an identity and each identity uses a SMTP account, normally an inherited default.

Incoming IMAP or POP accounts really aren't necessary if all you want is outgoing (SMTP) functionality, but unfortunately most mail apps don't separate them like Mulberry so you end creating "dummy" accounts as a sloppy workaround for those oversimplistic implementations.



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