On 29 Feb 20:57, mbm wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:18:27 +0000 Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk allegedly wrote:
On 29 Feb 11:20, Steve Fosdick wrote:
What do people here do to access e-mail when away from their normal PC?
Same thing I do when I'm at my "normal" PC...
ssh through to the box that handles my mail, run mutt, rejoice.
When I wasn't doing that I was using IMAP.
Cheers,
The problem with that approach is that it assumes you can get ssh access. My experience of airports, web cafes, hotels etc is that you are pretty much limited to web access (or if you are really lucky POP/IMAP).
*YAWN* - most don't block port 443, I have a ssh daemon listening on port 443 of one of my VMs, otherwise there's lots of other ways of "getting round" stupid access limits on broken notworks.
POP/IMAP is all well and good, but that limits to collection of mail, not sending. You'll most likely find that the SMTP port on these wireless networks is blocked, but you'll generally find port 587 open.
Hum ho,