Question : Shaw Cable email (shawmail) - POP3 checking from remote computer

Evidently Shaw cable will not allow an IP from outside their domain to access the POP3 server, which really pisses me off, because I need to check my home email from work. They have webmail, but that is a pain - I want something running in the background (I use Easy Notification (http://www.weberik.com)
What I think I need to do is run something on my computer at home (proxy or relay?) that I can point my POP3 checker at from work, and the Shaw email server will see the request coming from their domain. Even though the home machine has a dynamic IP, I will simply change the IP as needed to keep it pointed there.
Can someone help me out here?

Answer : Shaw Cable email (shawmail) - POP3 checking from remote computer

If I remember correctly, you need a batch file, say popconn.bat, that looks like this

-----8<--------------------------------
@echo off
nc pop3.yourisp.net 110
-----8<--------------------------------

For that matter it could also be

-----8<--------------------------------
@echo off
telnet pop3.yourisp.net 110
-----8<--------------------------------

on Win2K/XP

Then you need to have this running

nc -L -p 110 -e popconn.bat

To see if it's running correctly locally, you can do

telnet localhost 110

It should connect you to your ISP's POP3 server.