[wplug] telnet for email

[coldfire]

that's my solution ... squirrelmail via https and imaps (though clearly 
ssh/mutt is prefered).


abe

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Lance Tost wrote:

> Or configure something like Squirrelmail via https...
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, John Harrold wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:01:47 -0400
> > From: John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu>
> > Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> > To: wplug at wplug.org
> > Subject: Re: [wplug] telnet for email
> > 
> > Sometime in June Mike Griffin assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> > 
> > | Every computer that has tcp/ip installed has a telnet client. This 
> > | doesn't hold true with secure shell clients.
> > | If you're at a library, for instance, you can't dl something onto the 
> > | computer but telnet is available for use.
> > | 
> > | Mike
> > 
> > well you can setup a webserver with ssl and get one of those java ssh
> > clients to run in a browser... i did this a while back and it worked pretty
> > well. really though, of the libraries i've been in, the computers were
> > either locked down so tightly that access was forbidden to telnet or so
> > poorly that i could download putty. 
> > 
> > plus it's simply not true that "Every computer that has tcp/ip installed
> > has a telnet client." while you might be saying that a telnet client exists,
> > that doesn't necessarly mean it's installed. while it might be true to say
> > that "many" computers fitting that condition have a telent client
> > installed, i've certainly found some that do not.
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>
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