[Techtalk] Possibly OT - learning to code using an email notification program

[Helen Rosseau]

A quick note Jenn

	When I worked in the government, they used many devices to keep  the
ports open down to a minimum. We used hardware and software monitoring
tools to make sure.  I think your best bet, would be to talk to your IT
section to see what they have redirected and what they would let you
use.  Anything out of the ordinary sets off many alarms.  With recent
world events, there has been alot of renewed interest in security in all
forms.

Helen

"Davis, Jennifer" wrote:
> 
> Thanks Jenn for the feedback.  I guess there are things I left out.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 03:47, Davis, Jennifer wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> >       This may be more the subject of a forum specifically regarding
> > programming, but alas, here we go.
> 
> >  Techtalk is for programming too. It's just usually a sysadminny place.
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> > I am trying to develop a program that
> > will show the last few messages in my mailbox.  If I see something I want
> to
> > read, I just click on it, and my webmail opens up.  It is something I want
> > to use at work.  Port 110 on the office network is blocked, so I was
> > thinking of using the telnet port.
> 
> > Don't use telnet, use ssh. If you need me to explain why, ask.
> 
> Unless I can figure out some way to run ssh on an open port, I am stuck.
> They blocked the ssh port too.  Does anyone know a windows program that will
> reveal which outbound ports are open?
> 
> However..
> 
> > The quick-and-nasty, el-cheapo, get-a-proof-of-concept thing would be to
> > write a script that opens ssh and does a 'tail /var/spool/mail/foo'.
> 
> > That'll prove you can get in and open the mailbox. After that, it's just
> > a matter of reading the mailbox using whatever mail-reading libraries
> > your language of choice has, retrieving the messages of choice, and
> > presenting them whatever way you choose - again using the libraries.
> 
> > Without knowing what language and what libraries you have available, I
> > can't be more precise.
> 
> My hope was to use perl or C++ as those are the ones I am learning
> currently.  As far as libraries go, I haven't got a clue.  I guess I was
> just going to use the ones that come with the distro, slack 8.  I guess I
> forgot to mention, I am just learning.  I can program in Pascal or Basic,
> but that's if you want a tic-tac-toe game.  Recently, I started to learn
> PHP, though that is mostly from copying other's code and manipulate it for
> my purposes.
> 
> Thinking she just may be over her head...
> Jenn
> 
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