Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:45:05 +0800 From: Yuan Jue <yuanjue122@163.com> To: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail proxy problem Message-ID: <200509020945.05795.yuanjue122@163.com> In-Reply-To: <b7052e1e05090110504c6c9ce0@mail.gmail.com> References: <200509020055.28342.yuanjue122@163.com> <b7052e1e05090110504c6c9ce0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 02 September 2005 01:50, Yuan Jue wrote: Thanks for your suggestion. I know I can use POP3/SMTP to get mail from gmail. But as I mentioned before, I can't use them directly since they are abroad. > 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?
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