Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:03:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "K. Greenwood" <k_greenwood1@yahoo.com> To: Ronnie Clark <RClark@swst.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How to connect to the internet through a proxy Message-ID: <20010419220303.98078.qmail@web14106.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <EE037FA03845D41190F400508B2D851105413BD6@SWS_EXCG6>
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Sorry to nudge in, but I was just curious if you (or anybody) have been able to successfully retrieve mail from a POP server through a Squid proxy server. I'm hoping there are some entries in the squid.conf that I missed (and considering the size of that thing, entirely possible/likely). --- Ronnie Clark <RClark@swst.com> wrote: > Rick, > > I also have a FreeBSD box behind a proxy. I can > surf the web just fine by > manually pointing Netscape to use the proxy box. (In > Netscape, click on > "Edit", "Preferences", then at the bottom in the > "Advanced" area, you should > see "proxies". Choose "Manual Proxy config" and set > up your proxy's ip > address and ports in the appropriate blanks). > The only thing that I have not figured out, and > wonder if this is actually > what you are talking about, is when I go to > /usr/ports/"xyz", and try to do > a command line "make install" of a port, it will not > auto magically get out > to the internet and I do not know how to tell it to > use a proxy. > Hope this helped, even if it was only a little > bit. > > Ronnie Clark > A+, MCSE, CCSA, CCSE > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Duvall [mailto:maillist@coastsight.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:45 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: How to connect to the internet through a > proxy > > > Hi, > > My FreeBSD box is on the inside of a proxy server. > I would like to > connect it to the internet so that I can download > files with it. How do I > set FreeBSd up to do this? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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