Hmmm... I wish I had a medium size network to play around with. Anyway, I found this tutorial on IPTables- a little easier to digest: http://ornellas.apanela.com/dokuwiki/pub:firewall_and_adv_routing . But right now I am a little dizzy. I will try it later and report anything interesting if I am able to understand it. Meanwhile, do keep us posted about any progress.
Regards, Gokul Das On Jul 9, 6:54 pm, "V. Sasi Kumar" <sasi....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 04:12 -0700, Visakh wrote: > > Well, I feel that the problem is not that of the client itself, but > > rather the proxy. Squid is mainly an HTTP proxy and it supports a few > > other protocols like FTP. But it doesn't support mail protocols like > > POP3, SMTP and IMAP. It simply doesn't let that traffic pass through. > > But there is a work around: > > >http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/squid-prox... > > > The basic idea is to unblock POP3, IMAP and SMTP ports in the iptables > > at the server. > > I think you are right. What was done in CESS was, I think, unblocking > the ports. Of course, people were not using IMAP at that time and we > were using our own smtp server (that's what I remember). > > Best > -- > V. Sasi Kumar > Free Software Foundation of India > Please visithttp://swatantryam.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
