RE: [squid-users] MS outlook through SQUID 2.5

>Are you thinking of a transparent/intercepting proxy?

>e-mail uses a different protocol than www. The email client (outlook)
>has to be told to format its requests as HTTP for the proxy. Thats
>through the IE settings.
>Otherwise its likely to try to use POP3 or IMAP native protocol formats

>which squid does not understand.

Outlook also supports the rpcohttp protocol for communicating with the
Exchange server. This however needs a configuration in both ends, at the
server side (front and back-end) and in the outlook client.

For a reverse proxy setup there's an example in the wiki for such a
setup:
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/SquidAndRPCOverHttp?highlight
=%28%5EConfigExamples/%5B%5E/%5D%2A%24%29

Regards,

Tuukka

>Same goes for any email reader.

>Amos

>>
>> Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
>> 11/11/2007 02:54 PM
>>
>> shijjawi@wddjv.com wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> Could you please tell me what is the needed settings to allow MS
outlook
>>
>>> users to access their mail server through SQUID 2.5.
>>>
>>
>> 1) Squid 2.6
>>
>> 2) proxy configuration in MS outlook depends on the windows
>> InternetSettings I believe. It should have a proxy settings
somewhere.
>>
>>
>> Amos
>>
>>
Received on Mon Nov 12 2007 - 01:31:54 MST