Re: [squid-users] POP through Squid?

From: Simon White <simon@mtds.com>
To: Squid digest <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Subject: Re: [squid-users] POP through Squid?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:15:42 +0000

12-Apr-02 at 13:59, Aleksey Trubin (aleks@gw.kupol.ru) wrote :
> Hi all!
> There is some situation...
> There are users who want to get email using pop protocol from free
> mailboxes. But they have a grey IP addesses (192.168.XXX.YYY) and get
> Internet access through Squid. I suppose that can't be done through
> Squid (we use 2.4STABLE6). But if it possible how can I do this?

If you want private IP addresses to be able to communicate with the
outside world you have to do nat. Proxying is one exception, but I
seriously doubt that anyone in their right mind would ever proxy POP or
SMTP traffic.
>>If that is the case then Raptor, Secure Computing, MS, ....
>>and every firewall vendor and the people who buy firewalls
>>for the purpose securing smtp are not in their right minds.
>>For Firewall admins this is essential that is why this
>>question comes up again and again. Every firewall admin
>>would love to proxy pop or imap, cache the result to a squid server for
>>virus checking and performance reasons
>>i.e. while you are reading one message other messages are
>>being downloaded to the squid server. In the reverse direction
>>it probably would not be a bad idea for the same reasons
>>of performance and virus checking to put such a server in
>>front of your pop or imap server. In essence this idea is the
>>same as putting squid in front of an exchange server for OWA intead
>>of IIS.
>>To follow your logic the people on the list that do this are
>>not in their right mind either.(that is a joke;-)
>>I don't see much difference between storing your email on
>>unix server and a squid server in terms of security. But
>>then again I am not in my right mind( that is a joke ;-)
>>At any rate I believe it has been made clear that squid
>>is not going to support this. However, I hope to make it
>>clear why people keep asking for it.
>>
>>respectfully,
>>Raymond

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