Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 11:00:18 -0400
>> alex lupu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi integ,
>>
>>> the bottom half ...
>>> < broken link to be copied and pasted>
>>
>> I'm re-sending the link you submitted:
>>
>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-client/chromium/chromium-30.0.1599.66.ebuild?view=markup
>>
>> _If_ it arrives in one piece at a destination, maybe for long links,
>> an alternative would be to use (I hate to say this) Google Gmail.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- Alex
>
> Is that because of the web interface?
>
> You can also use Gmail with a mail program and use Google's servers
> merely as relays. That's what I have been doing for ... lemme just
> check the mail archive... 4 years. Give or take.

> For this, you can use either IMAP or POP3/SMTP. Instructions can be
> found somewhere in the profane depths of Google's help pages.
>
> If you want to use POP3/SMTP like I do, your POP3 server is
> pop.gmail.com, you use port 995 and SSL to connect to it.
> Interestingly, SSL is mandatory (and pretty much always was). Your SMTP
> server is smtp.gmail.com with port 465 and also mandatory SSL. Your
> MUA/MTA should be able to deal with authentication details (passwords)
> on its own. For sending, you may want to select "authenticate with POP3
> before SMTP" if your client gives you the option (not sure if it's
> mandatory, but works for me).

I agree. I've been using POP3S from GMAIL for about 10 years.  I like 
seamonkey's client for local access.

   -- Bruce

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