On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Jakob Curdes <jc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Avinash Rao schrieb: >> >> Dear All, >> >> I am using Squid 2.6stable18 on Ubuntu 8.04 Server 64-bit edition. I >> have few windows clients using MS Outlook configured to download >> emails from their gmail accounts through pop3 and smtp. But, they >> don't seem to work. Will MS Outlook 2003 work through squid.? >> > > Thius cannot work. SQUID is a HTTP protocol proxy and does not know or > understand POP3, SMTP, IMAP... > You either need to allow these client direct internet access via > NAT/firewall or use proxy applications dedicated for these protocols. > Or use a mail server that delivers mails via HTPS to Outlook (Exchange can > be configured to do so, additional config on squid required, though). > > HTH, > Jakob Curdes > > Jakob, Thanks for the quick response. Could you elaborate on Firewall/NAT configurations.. is this something to do IPTABLES.. routing it directly to the Internet Modem? Thanks Avinash
