Re: [Evolution] Alternate ports for POP

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

This is done for 0.5, you can specify any port you want.

Jeff

On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Peter Kropf wrote:
> > From home I regularly connect to the network at work by using
> ssh to get through the firewall. And to provide some security.
> To get email, I typically use ssh's -L option to specify a 
> forwarded IP port for the popmail server. So the command looks
> something like: 
>
>   ssh -L 5110:popmail_host:110 firewall_host
>
> And then in Netscape I specify the mail host as localhost:5110.
> I'm then able to read my work email from home. Yea!
>
> I'd like to move away from Netscape as my email reader since
> it's not all that good. And one of the obvious alternatives is
> Evolution. Having followed the mailing list for a while, it 
> looks like Evolution is good enough for someone like me to 
> begin working with it. 
>
> However, I haven't been able to figure out how to specify an
> alternative port for the popmail server in Evolution. Can anyone
> out there help? Or suggest any alternatives?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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> Peter Kropf
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