[plug] Getting around firewalls (Outgoing)

[Paul Antoine]

I seem to remember there's an RFC defining the standard...

P.

W.Kenworthy wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 10:58 +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
>> W.Kenworthy wrote:
>>
>>> For those really hard cases, there is an email tunnel (!)
>> What? You mean TCP/IP packets sent via email? Has that really been 
>> implemented?
>>
> 
> Yes, was about 2000 when I installed and tested it alongside gnu
> HTTPtunnel.  One end used to take packets on a port, encode it into an
> email and send it, and a server application at the other end would do
> the reverse.  Was aimed at telnet/short messages to control something -
> but really a "curiosity" than useful.  I think it used to be called
> emailtunnel, but the keywords are far to common for google to find for
> me.
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
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