Hi, On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, [koi8-r] =E9=CC=D8=D1 =FB=C9=D0=C9=C3=C9=CE wrote: > Salut, Colin Campbell ! > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Colin Campbell wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Glen Spidal wrote: > > > > > I have servers set up as diagramed below. Proxied web traffic work f= ine. > > > Email fails. > > > I can send mail from the Linux box via Pine. Email server is at exte= rnal > > > ISP. > > > > Squid is an HTTP proxy. Either run an MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, qma= il, > > ....) on the squid server or let the wintel clients talk to the ISP's m= ail > > server by routing (and natting?) through the squid server. > > not only. squid is also https-proxy, it understands "CONNECT" method. > If you don't know how to make use of CONNECT to implement those things > like SMTP, IMAP, IRC, POP3, You'd better be keeping silence. > It's no good to say "it's impossible for sure". If you don't know > just "I don't know". And even better, don't say anything. So, squid understands "CONNECT". Everyone, even me, and obviously you, understands that, but as you, yourself point out in a later email, it's totally useless to an email client. You have to run something else. Squid, on its own is no use for email. So, Glen's sensible options are: =09- run an MTA =09- run a SOCKS daemon =09- allow clients to talk SMTP to internet =09- run an SMTP "proxy" (eg smap from fwtk) Oh yeah then he could also =09- run a proxy that mail clients talk to and have it talk to squid =09and use the CONNECT method I know which way I'd go. Colin -- Colin Campbell Unix Support/Postmaster/Hostmaster CITEC +61 7 3227 6334
