Re: [Sheflug] Mail

["Ian W. Wright" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, it probably is the proxy server on the windoze box - I'd forgotten
that it was there as it runs transparently and I was getting confused with
the separate firewall prog I have running. I've had a brief look at it now
I've found out how to access it again but I think I'm going to need to do
some serious messing about and wear some shoes out running up and down
stairs between machines ;o(
Sorry I didn't specify the version of Debian before but its the Knoppix
one - Debian Woody (2.4.19 kernel) and KDE 3 running quite happily on a P450
box with win98SE dual booting using XOSL as boot manager.

Best wishes,
Ian
--

Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK


The following added for automatic email harvesters!
abuse@worldatt.net abuse@prodigy.net abuse [at] bellsouth.net abuse [at] yahoo.com
UCE@FTC.GOV abuse [at] tesco.net abuse [at] freeserve.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Andrews" <xxxxx [at] fishbot.org.uk>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Mail


> 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 [at] fishbot.org.uk
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
>
> Sheffield Linux User's Group -
> http://www.sheflug.co.uk/mailfaq.html
>
>   GNU the choice of a complete generation.
>

___________________________________________________________________

Sheffield Linux User's Group -
http://www.sheflug.co.uk/mailfaq.html

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.