Advanced POP3 usage

The POP3 proxy handles :

<user><delim><host>:<port>

so, you can specify the port number you want WinGate to connect to. This is useful if you want to connect to a POP3 server running on a non-standard port. For example, if you were running a POP3 server on the WinGate machine on port 8110, and you were using Eudora, then your pop account in Eudora would be

user#localhost:8110@wingate

In this way, you can run a POP3 server on the same machine as WinGate, and still have access to POP3 servers on the Internet as well. Another way of doing this would be to use the non-proxy request support of the POP3 proxy.

Furthermore, WinGate parses the delimiter from the end of the username. This means you can run through multiple POP3 proxies.

e.g. A pop3 account in Eudora, of

user#popserver#wingate2:8110#wingate1@wingate

would cause Eudora to connect to wingate, and send the command

USER user#popserver#wingate2:8110#wingate1

Which would cause wingate to connect to wingate1 and send the command

USER user#popserver#wingate2:8110

which would cause wingate1 to connect to wingate2 on port 8110 and send the command

USER user#popserver

which would cause wingate2 to connect to popserver and send the command

USER user

Thereby connecting through a whole series of POP3 proxies.