Re: POP3 & SMTP problems

It's normal that you can't use POP or SMTP to the internet, Squid is only http
proxy so no POP or SMTP proxy.

BUT!!!!
I found a great tool a time ago where you can use every tcp application behind a
http-proxy....
So also POP and SMTP
Search on www.download.com to HTTPort and try it out, read the manual and run
it.
This tools is based on https and makes connections to specific ports on the net
with CONNECT XX.
You can elliminate the use of this tools by blocking CONNECTS in Squid

Koen Bosmans
Network Admin.
Elex NV.

Dominique Kindt wrote:

> I've installed Squid 2.3 stable1 on Linux Slackware 7.0
>
> I use this system to cache webpages but also to firewall and hand out dhcp
> addresses. So it has two ethernet cards. The dhcp adresses are in another
> range that those of the outside world. So internaly the systems cannot
> connect directly to the internet i.e. they cannot ping an outside IP address
> and therefore cannot connect directly to the POP3 servers outside. They have
> to go through the proxy but not one mail client seems to support the proxy
> setting.
>
> How can I solve this ?
>
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> Dominique Kindt
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> Group Hardware en Infrastructure
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Received on Thu Apr 27 2000 - 02:18:33 MDT