Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 09:50:59 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: mnewton <mnewton@newland.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as proxy server for mail client Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970322094904.18394K-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199703211938.MAA16139@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I have a BSD box connected as a proxy server (Squid) with a static IP .I > > have 25 pc's attached on a local IP net browsing and popping mail from > > the BSD pc. I have some users that have other mail servers on the > > "outside" that I need to proxy thru' the BSD box. Do I use IPFW or SOCKS > > to do this ??. > > Will it conflict with SQUID ??? etc etc. > > Do you care if the connection is made to the FreeBSD box or to the > outside box? > > If you don't care, I'd suggest using popper to retrieve the mail > from the user's outside account to the user's FreeBSD account, and > then the user can read their mail by connecting to the FreeBSD box. I guess you mean 'popclient' here, rather than 'popper'. For Mark's benefit: popclient is a unix program which will fetch mail from a remote pop server and put the mail in your local Unix mailbox. Danny
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