How can I check my personal pop3 mail account from behind Coporate firewall.

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Hi,
I'm involved as an organizer with various community groups, and need/want
to check my email while at work. I have a pop3 account, no webmail, and
can't connect to it from inside the corporate force field. I'd prefer not
to have to have all my contacts start using my (e-mail address removed)
account, unless I have to. Is there any freeware that can

1.check my pop3 account (dial-up access) when I'm away, and irregardless of
what family member happens to be logged onto our XP Home machine at the
time. (even if no one is logged on??)
2.Check the email on the pop3 server against a list of rules/email
addresses
3.Forward the matching email to my work email address (or (e-mail address removed))
leaving the "original" on my ISP's pop3 server.

There are probably ways of tunneling through the corporate firewall, but
that sounds like a good way to get fired.

I guess what I'm looking for is not an email client, but a "smart" email
handling service.

Thanks in advance for the assist
Jeff
 
Hi,
I'm involved as an organizer with various community groups, and need/want
to check my email while at work. I have a pop3 account, no webmail [snip]
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I'll stop you right there. Why not get a webmail account that offers
pop3 checking? Most do.

http://www.myrealbox.com is one of the best available, despite its
"beta" status. Very reliable, IMO.
 
JvAllen said:
Hi,
I'm involved as an organizer with various community groups, and
need/want to check my email while at work. I have a pop3 account,
no webmail, and can't connect to it from inside the corporate
force field. [snip]

I guess what I'm looking for is not an email client, but a "smart"
email handling service.

Thanks in advance for the assist
Jeff
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You might want to ask at 24hoursupport.helpdesk also.

Good luck.
 
Hi Jeff,
I need/want
to check my email while at work. I have a pop3 account, no webmail, and
can't connect to it from inside the corporate force field.
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1-Depending on who operates your POP3 server and how, you could "legitimately"
skirt around the firewall restriction by contacting this server on a different
port. That's easy if it is your own server. If not you'll need to ask its
operator.

2-Have you tries talking to you IT guys and asking them to enable you to reach
that one POPserver? It is worth doing, if only to understand what their concern
/ constraint is and what would get you into trouble.

3-You could set up on your home PC a cyclical check of your POP mailbox, filter
thru your various rules and forward the relevant mails to your web mail (during
the relevant hours, etc). If your macro/programing skills and patience are up to
it, that is. Be prepared for some testing and frustration, LOL.

4-Otherwise the easiest solution is to enable POP3 checking on a webmail
account, as already suggested.


In your shoes, I'd start by talking to the IT guys and feel the water.

DAN
 
JvAllen said:
Hi,
I'm involved as an organizer with various community groups, and need/want
to check my email while at work. I have a pop3 account, ---snip--
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have you tried "PopCorn Mail " ? it can run from a floppy and
should work, because it reads e-mail from the site instead of downloading it...
 
have you tried "PopCorn Mail " ? it can run from a floppy and
should work, because it reads e-mail from the site instead of downloading it...
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Are you trying to get him fired???
 
Thanks to all for the info/guidance. I think the best thing, in my case,
will be to set up a webmail account. I'm looking over the services
suggested, I'm sure I'll find something that fits the bill.
again, thanks
Jeff
 
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