At CESS clients acsess via proxy; and relevant ports are open; mail transport agents including SMTP was running. Nowadays, in google mail times not many are using mail clients! regards/harish
2009/7/9 Visakh <[email protected]> > > 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" <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
