Cingular GPRS POP proxy converts to .CAB files?

Cingular GPRS is unusable for me, because it appears that they have set
up a proxy server for POP -- it compresses emails over a certain size
and turns them into .CAB files. This probably works find if you are
using Entourage or another MS product, but I'm not, and I don't really
need Cingular proxying my data.

Other people have reported similar:
<http://tinyurl.com/ucuz>

Any way to avoid this?
Does Tmobile do this?


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In article <1g46g02.zko36e4zez5pN%[email protected]>,
Mike D <[email protected]> wrote:
>Cingular GPRS is unusable for me, because it appears that they have set
>up a proxy server for POP -- it compresses emails over a certain size
>and turns them into .CAB files. This probably works find if you are
>using Entourage or another MS product, but I'm not, and I don't really
>need Cingular proxying my data.
>
>Other people have reported similar:
> <http://tinyurl.com/ucuz>
>
>Any way to avoid this?
>Does Tmobile do this?

AT&T GSM, T-mobile, and Verizon EN do _not_ do this. At least these
work just fine with mutt and Apple Mail.app

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HTML-only/base64 email addressed to me is automatically and silently discarded.

MARK HENDERSON <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <1g46g02.zko36e4zez5pN%[email protected]>,
> Mike D <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Cingular GPRS is unusable for me, because it appears that they have set
> >up a proxy server for POP -- it compresses emails over a certain size
> >and turns them into .CAB files. This probably works find if you are
> >using Entourage or another MS product, but I'm not, and I don't really
> >need Cingular proxying my data.
> >
> >Other people have reported similar:
> > <http://tinyurl.com/ucuz>
> >
> >Any way to avoid this?
> >Does Tmobile do this?
>
> AT&T GSM, T-mobile, and Verizon EN do _not_ do this. At least these
> work just fine with mutt and Apple Mail.app

Is there an alternate APN for cingular that doesn't do this? Or perhaps
an alternate POP port that I could use?

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