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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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