Re: [squid-users] Re: Can squid be configured as SMTP/SMTPS proxy?

On 17/12/10 20:11, Manuel wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> How common is for the client app to work with SMTPS proxies? I have a
> vBulletin forum in a backend that I want it to send e-mails to the users
> through a SMTP server in a different server. vBulletin app works fin with
> SMTP servers through TLS and SSL but have not tried with Squid yet. I've
> been told that this solution could be done with an VPN like OpenVPN but
> since we already have Squid in the frontend as a reverse proxy for the
> website and in that frontend is also located the SMTP server maybe we can
> just use the already running Squid. What do you think?

*all* email clients work with SMTP proxies. These are called
"mailservers" in the SMTP world.

Squid is not capable of parsing or talking SMTP protocol. Using it as a
mail relay server is futile.

Amos

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