Custom Email Check for Ctyme.com IMAP Email in Evolution

Updated May 18, 2006 @ 2:30 am

So, I’m in China for the next month. And, I’m faced with the problem yet again that my email hosting service, Ctyme, is blocked in China. I found a website, http://www.xs2mail.com, which lets me access this ctyme-based account. However, I still want to be able to access my IMAP email inside of my email program, Evolution.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

I see that Evolution allows for one to run custom commandline commands. Also, I can run my ctyme email as POP mail as well, but prefer to keep the same setttings inside of Evolution.
I’m thinking best to run some remote command on one of my webservers.

Has anyone else set this up before? I couldn’t find anything about this on the web at all.

So, at least I can check my ctyme.com email account, but now still really want to be able to check my email the normal way!
BTW: The Internet connection I’m using here in Guangzhou is faster than the one in my own house in San Francisco. I’m chucking SBC/ATT DLS once I get back — it is total junk! 

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5 Comments »

  1. can you set your Ctyme auto forwarding all the mail to one other email like gmail ? you can use gmail and hotmail in china, yeah, you do!

    Comment by JohnFractal — May 18, 2006 @ 3:25 am

  2. Well, I’d recommend setting up an SSH tunnel. But, to do that you’ll need a box that you can SSH into (which doesn’t have tunneling turned off). Ideally it’d be a host at Ctyme, but others could do it also.

    My hosting provider has a quick SSH Howto. Look under “Port Forwarding” for more info.

    Comment by Ted Gould — May 18, 2006 @ 12:50 pm

  3. hey, my friend tell me another way to handle your problem, using yahoo mail as a pop client, you can read this help page “http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/mail/ext_access1.html”, good luck!

    Comment by JohnFractal — May 19, 2006 @ 5:41 am

  4. i did what JohnFractal did; forwarded to gmail and d/l’d from there; no problems with it, and it was a quick fix. same goes for sending email (just use the email secure server). i also noticed some connections in china were faster, but a lot of it seemed to be based on the location of the site/server that i was trying to access; most US academic sites crawled like LA traffic south of the 5 on a Friday afternoon; ymmv.

    Comment by pw — May 19, 2006 @ 2:36 pm

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