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| 4469.1 | | teco.mro.dec.com::tecotoo.mro.dec.com::mayer | Danny Mayer | Thu Feb 13 1997 09:33 | 12 |
| > Our ISP partner claims that this is feasible. I disagree. Can anybody
> confirm that the goals of the customer are mutually exclusive?
Of course it's feasible. You need to create a hole in the firewall
for POP3/SMTP access. I assume you are talking about POP3/SMTP. However,
with POP3 you basically end up downloading the mail to a local system.
Does the customer really want to have their mail in two places? The
alternative is IMAP4 which will allow them to leave the mail on the mail
server, with an IMAP4 port hole through the firewall. Does the customer
REALLY want to keep their mail exposed like this?
Danny
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| 4469.2 | gxd and screend.conf | 23329::CIMAFRANCA | | Fri Feb 14 1997 05:42 | 6 |
| Joel,
There's a generic proxy for TCP. On the IP level, you can also use
screend.
--Dominic
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| 4469.3 | | BIGUN::nessus.cao.dec.com::Mayne | Wake up, time to die | Sun Feb 16 1997 16:44 | 6 |
| A generic proxy will do the job fine. As for packet filtering, it depends what
kind of firewall it is. If it's AltaVista firewall for UNIX, screend will do the
job. If it's AltaVista firewall for Windows NT, no packet filtering. At least
one other Windows NT firewall does have packet filtering, though.
PJDM
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| 4469.4 | mail from anywhere | CIMBAD::CROSBY | | Mon Feb 17 1997 15:12 | 10 |
| On a similar vein...
I have an outside of Digital customer who wants to be able to go up to an
ATM like device and retrieve his e-mail from anywhere.
It seems that this is doable, are there pointers to products/resources that might
be helpful?
gc
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| 4469.5 | | BIGUN::nessus.cao.dec.com::Mayne | Wake up, time to die | Mon Feb 17 1997 15:45 | 6 |
| What kind of ATM like device?
You could use AV tunnel to retrieve your internal mail from anywhere on the
Internet, but what does an ATM like device have to do with it?
PJDM
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| 4469.6 | ATM != ATM | DECCXL::WIBECAN | That's the way it is, in Engineering! | Mon Feb 17 1997 16:07 | 11 |
| >> What kind of ATM like device?
I believe ATM means, in this case, "Automated Teller Machine":
>> I have an outside of Digital customer who wants to be able to go up to an
>> ATM like device and retrieve his e-mail from anywhere.
That is, walk up to a kiosk, stick in a card and type your password, and read
your E-mail.
Brian
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| 4469.7 | | CFSCTC::SMITH | Tom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751 | Mon Feb 17 1997 16:16 | 5 |
| See http://www.hotmail.com/ . It _would_ work from an ATM if you had an
ATM with a light-weight WWW client. As it is, you have to go your local
cyber-cafe.
-Tom
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| 4469.8 | ATM | CIMBAD::CROSBY | | Mon Feb 17 1997 16:19 | 17 |
| Brian's got it...I guess I'm dating myself...
This customer wants to offer a service where anyone, from Digital, IBM, or
Sam's cycle shop can walk up to one of these little phone-booth like devices
and get their mail from their service provider.
Can I take their username/pw and perform the necessary name translation to accomplish
this. In those cases where I encountered two users with the same un/pw
(such as gary@samscycle), I would have impose some types of rules.
I apologize that the question is not more clearly stated, and I'm not looking
for answers. Just pointers, or ideally,..."Yeah we did that...."
Thanks.
gc
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| 4469.9 | | CIMBAD::CROSBY | | Mon Feb 17 1997 16:20 | 5 |
| Tom,
Thanks...Off I go.
gc
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| 4469.10 | www.hotmail.com | CIMBAD::CROSBY | | Mon Feb 17 1997 16:36 | 7 |
| Re: .7
www.hotmail.com connection failed...timed out.
Not a good sign.
gc
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| 4469.11 | | CFSCTC::SMITH | Tom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751 | Mon Feb 17 1997 21:45 | 1 |
| Looks OK from here. Maybe it was on break.
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| 4469.12 | Radio based modems accomplish this too. | BASEX::EISENBRAUN | John Eisenbraun | Tue Feb 18 1997 10:52 | 6 |
| There are a couple of companies that are offering light weight e-mail
pager like devices. I've also seen radio based modems that allow you
to connect your laptop to your own network from just about anywhere.
The above is a little different concept from the original note, but it
is complementary/competing technology.
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| 4469.13 | I've seen on... | SKYLAB::FISHER | Gravity: Not just a good idea. It's the law! | Tue Feb 18 1997 16:26 | 11 |
| I've seen a gadget exactly like you describe. It was in the convention
center in Anaheim at the last DECUS. It worked slick...had a mail
client with a POP3 input and SMTP output. You give it your POP3
mailbox name and password and it retrieved your mail. Give it an SMTP
server and you could send mail.
Of course it would not fetch through the DEC firewall, but it was fine
going to my ISP here in Nashua NH.
Burns
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