Re: [Sheflug] Mail

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 9:46 am, Ian W. Wright wrote:
> I have Mozilla and Konqueror set up so I can get to the web via my network
> gateway on the windoze box and they work fine but both Mozilla mail and
> Kmail consistently tell me they can't find my mail account. I can't see
> anywhere in either programme's setup where I can tell them to use a proxy -
> unless I should change the PORT 110 setting to the port number of my proxy.
> What am I missing?

Proxies only support certain protocols.  If ports 80 and 443 are open, then 
you have to be sending HTTP requests. It won't make sense to it to allow any 
old stuff through. For that, you need NAT (aka Masquerading). 

Have you opened port 110 for POP3 traffic, and port 25 for SMTP traffic, on 
the proxy machine, and set the default gateway on the client to the proxy 
server? If not, then this is probably your first port of call. I don't know 
much about the newer Debian stuff (I still have 2.2r7 for the little I use 
it) but on Mandrake and SuSE you can specify a systemwide proxy setting which 
will sort out the necessaries for you.

-- 
Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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