>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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> 11/11/2007 02:54 PM >> >> shijjawi@xxxxxxxxx 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 >> >>