Re: [squid-users] Squid proxy and outlook express

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:34:40PM +0000, Salihou B. Boukari wrote:
> Thanks for you reply.But i have a concern.Don't you think there should
> be a way to bypass the proxy for the outlook express to be able to
> send and receice email trhought the same internet connection.All the
> Windows clients can actually browse on the net throught the proxy.But
> those that use outlook express can not get connected.

You have misunderstood what squid can do for you. It is not responsible
for proxying mail traffic whether that be smtp/pop/imap or anything
else.

Your outlook clients should have the hostname/ip address of the mail
servers they wish to use, not the the ip of the squid server, and it is
the responsibility of your internet gateway/router to get packets out to
them and back.

squid is not a general purpose proxy/router/gateway/firewall like
microsoft isa server or similar.

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Michael