Hi

I run an old mac internet server with SIMS/QPQ/NCSAtelnet and the usual 
assortment of cobbled together tools. It has served me well for years 
but now my institution has decided to block port 25, nominally for 
security reasons, claiming a danger of unauthorized servers. This 
despite my vigorous protests and despite the fact that it has been their 
NT servers and not my mac that have been downed by virus after virus for 
the past few years.

Anyway, I went to check mail from home the other night and found that I 
could not access the SIMS pop server remotely. It works fine locally, so 
I assume there must be some block at the institution level. (Not that 
they gave me any warning, even though they know very well about the 
handful of us left running independent servers.)

I can work around this by connecting directly via Timbuktu but this is a 
pain. Also, I have no idea what port that uses and whether that will be 
shut down, too. This machine will eventually go to OS X (and then I 
should be able to just log in with SSH) but I would like to have a 
dependable fall back.

I see from the archives that there have been past discussions of web 
front ends for the SIMS/QPQbeta combo but many of these are old and I 
wanted to ask about people's current experience.

Any pointers appreciated.

thanks

robin colgrove



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