is there an email client that get through a firewall?

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is there an email client that get through a firewall?

My office has an annoying firewall where all personal mail clients, including Apple Mail and Thunderbird, are automatically blocked. AppleMail spins as if searching for email, but I can never download it. I can of course get mail via webmail, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a client that does not incur this kind of problem.

Thank you for your help!

Macbook Air SSD, iMac 24" 2.8Ghz, Iphone, Ipod Touch, Apple TV, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 4 G Ram

Posted on Feb 18, 2009 1:53 PM

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direwolf8

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Feb 18, 2009 2:41 PM in response to Felix Leiter

The point of using a web-based e-mail client is that ports 80 and sometimes 443 are the only ports you can be sure are open in most cases. It's the protocol that's blocked by the firewall, not the application. If pop and imap are blocked, then no pop or imap client will work.

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