Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:50:15 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: Yuan Jue <yuanjue122@163.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail proxy problem Message-ID: <b7052e1e05090110504c6c9ce0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200509020055.28342.yuanjue122@163.com> References: <200509020055.28342.yuanjue122@163.com>
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On 9/1/05, Yuan Jue <yuanjue122@163.com> wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I have a problem here. As a student of one of the universities in China, I > cannot connect to other countries directly, we kind of using an intranet > called CERNET which do not allow directly connect to abroad. When browsering > the web, I need http proxy. And since I have a gmail, I want to use some mail > client to receive/post my mails from gmail, so I still need a socks proxy. > > Finding a socks proxy is not a big problem. The problem is, I can not use the > proxy in Kmail, which is now my main mail client since my WM is KDE. The > KBiff (a mail notifier for KDE) also can not connect to gmail. My question > is: Is there any proxy tools that can set one program to use a certain proxy > while other programs are still unaffected, because I don't want to use a > global proxy, and it can not set global socks proxy in KDE, right? > > Does anybody have some suggestions? Any solution to my problem, say the > receive/post/notify mails problem, is appreciated. You can access GMail via POP3/SMTP, and even encrypt the traffic - is this suitable for you? -- Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"help
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