Re: [squid-users] Letting Outlook see users email

in your most recent message you said they were having trouble connecting
to the local mail server, however i believe your initial post stated
that they had trouble connecting to remote mail servers...

for local mail

you need to make sure you have a pop or imap server running. check your
inetd.conf or xinetd configuration, not sure what suse uses.

likely it shipped with a pop server and possibly imap server, you just
need to make sure it is running. you can try this on the server:

telnet localhost 110

and see if you connect. if you do try the same from a windows box.

if you do not have an acceptable pop or imap server on the box, try
qpopper at eudora.com for POP mail and washington university IMAP server
(or cyrus - but i think washington u's server is way easier for you to
set up.)

then you simply give outlook the ip address for your server, or a dns
name if you have that set up inside your network.

thanks

waitman

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 03:51, Ricardo Fitzgerald wrote:
    Hi Waitman,
    
    Thanks for your reply.
    My users can see email, but only in the linux box, sendamil is configured to
    handle the mail, but the win boxes didn�t see the mail server, is not
    because of firewall/nat becuase the only thing that it's configured right
    now is ip forwarding, squid is configured following the white paper on
    transparent proxy. So there is no firewall besides squid acls.
    What I want to know is if there is a solution to this problem using squid,
    (I just started to understand a bit the way it works), or I have to check
    something else to allow the win boxes to see the UNIX local users email
    using Outlook Express. Web mail such as hotmail accounts is working and so
    does Messenger and ICQ, but my boss also wants to read his email on his
    computer (a win box) instead of having to read it on the server.
    
    Thanks again,
    
    Regards,
    
    Rick Fitzgerald
    Ermitage Hotel
    Administrator
    
> From: "Waitman C. Gobble" <waitman@emkdesign.com>
> Date: 13 Oct 2002 22:06:49 -0700
> To: Ricardo Fitzgerald <fitzgerald@movinet.com.uy>
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Letting Outlook see users email
>
> Hello
>
> Are you talking about web-based email? If NOT then Squid is NOT what is
> blocking your users!
>
> Port 25 is used for SMTP mail. If your users cannot access remote
> mailboxes, then they probably can't get out through port 110 (POP) or
> port 143 (IMAP).
>
> If you are using your Suse box as a firewall/router then check out your
> firewall/natd settings...
>
> Take care,
>
> Waitman Gobble
> EMK Design
> Buena Park California
> http://emkdesign.com
> +1.7145222528
>
>
> On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 22:05, Ricardo Fitzgerald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a small networks setup consisting in 5 win computers and a Suse 7.3
> Pro Linux server, running a mailserver, a nameserver, and using Squid as a
> transparent proxy.
>
> I only have a few users and mail is delivered using
> fetchmail-sendmail-procmail, I need the windows clients to access an
> alternative mail box which is in another providers mail server, (right now I
> can see it in kmail on the server only)my problem is squid doesn't allow me
> to do that, I tried opening port 25, but it didn't work either.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
>
>
>
    
    
    
    
Received on Mon Oct 14 2002 - 11:32:00 MDT