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pstein
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Search PHP code to access remote email account

Post by pstein »

I am sitting behind a firewall which blocks the http access to all popular free email providers like

hotmail.com
gmail.com
....

The blocking is done by filtering out the domain names.

So I am searching for a way to access the mailbox by a third domain e.g. mydomain123.com (which is under my control).
I could imagine that there is a PHP code which can be setup on mydomain123.com which accesses the final hotmail.com
mailbox by using POP3 fetches and SMTP sends.

Is there such an PHP intermediate code?

Peter
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Re: Search PHP code to access remote email account

Post by Eric! »

Load up Thunderbird or some other program that supports IMAP or POP like outlook and connect directly to GMAIL's imap server. No need to use port 80 at all. http://support.google.com/mail/bin/stat ... 68960&rd=1
pstein
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Re: Search PHP code to access remote email account

Post by pstein »

Hmm, this solution is NOT what I need.

I want to avoid having to install a program like Thunderbird locally.

Furthermore the firewall blocks not only ports but domain names as well.

So I am allowed to access e.g.a non-freemail-web page-domain like

http://www.foobarfoobar.com/myspecialmailboxaccess.php

For that I need to install a php script on (my) server foobarfoobar.com

Is there any intermediate php script for this purpose?

Peter
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