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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.
>=20
> 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 browser=
ing
> 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=
.
>=20
> 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 questio=
n
> is: Is there any proxy tools that can set one program to use a certain pr=
oxy
> 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?
>=20
> 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?

--=20
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"



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