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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
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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