On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:06:54PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Background: my normal mail setup uses Postfix on my laptop to send > outgoing mail. My university has blocked all outgoing ports except 80 > (and they may have a transparent proxy in front of that) and 443 on > their wireless network. My laptop cannot contact its normal mail servers > on any port. (I happen to run those servers, but I already have > processes listening on 80 and 443 on the relevant servers!) > > In the best of all possible worlds, I wouldn't have to edit > /etc/postfix/main.cf whenever I happen to be in this network. (Of > course, I could script that.) Does anyone have alternative setups?
If they have an actual proxy server you can set then you could setup openvpn on your server on say port 8080 and then connect to it via the http proxy. openvpn has http proxy support. -- John http://www.inodes.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
