Re: [squid-users] POP through Squid?

On Monday 15 April 2002 09:40, Daniel Barron wrote:
> In message <F85KIvQiOq1c2It70p8000052ae@hotmail.com> you wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > 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.
>
> [snip]
>
> http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/smtpproxy.html
> http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html

Note: There are other reasons to proxy traffic than just addresses.
The main reasons perhaps being
 a) Logging
 b) Access controls
 c) Filtering (virus scanning etc)

In case of SMTP and POP these protocols are also often
reverse-proxied for load balancing or request routing resons. For
example POP is commonly reverse-proxied by ISPs to be able to provide
a single POP service address to all your users regardless of which
server the users mailaccount actually resides on.

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