Squid won't pass through FTP and SMTP (was: help for squid newbie )

> From: Mark DeWar [SMTP:inetmail@mailserver.fiber-net.com]
>
> i have installed squid and it works for web surfing. however i can not get
> the machines on the network to check/send mail or ftp out.
> I have looked thru the squid.conf and read the faq's and can not see what
> i have missed.
> if someone could please help or point me in the right direction I would
> greatly greatly appreciate it. This is driving me nuts.
>
        What you have missed is that Squid is not a firewall -
        in fact it is probably unwise to run it on a firwall
        machine, as it violates the simplicity condition for
        secure software.

        Squid is primarily a web cache.

        Secondary roles are as an HTTP to FTP gateway and as
        an HTTP proxy.

        You need either a masquerading (NAT) router, or an
        FTP proxy (which cannot be invisible to users) and
        a conventional mail transport agent.
Received on Wed Nov 24 1999 - 09:52:32 MST