Ethan,
the following is describes, what I am using for this (I just sent the same
answer for another thread, called squid):
I had exactly the same problem (it's part of the "nature" of using a dynamic
IP address from your ISP as far as I understand). I got help from people
here on the list with the dynamic IP address problem but I never got it
working reliable.
Squid is a proxy for http requests only.
I installed a very simple proxy for other requests, called 'Fastforward'. As
far as I remember it's from the same site where wvdial comes from. I believe
it came from www.worldvisions.ca.
It works as a proxy server on your Internet gateway machine, sitting beside
squid.
Very simple: In it's .conf file, you just define a table with mappings for
internal-IP:port = external-IP:port like
192.168.0.13:110 = your.ISPs.pop3.IP:110
and you point your LAN clients email client to the internal address:port on
your gateway. Same with the client's smtp setting. I also use it for my news
client (port 119). It's very simple, no monitoring/accounting at all but it
works for me that way.
Regards,
Michael Doerner
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ethan Snyder
> Sent: Monday, 20 September 1999 06:27
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> Subject: Outlook Express/98
>
>
> Hi everyone, another question about diald...
> In the office that i have the diald box setup in, most of the people use
> Outlook Express to check their e-mail. Well, outlook express seems to
> only send the request maybe 3 times when you click the "send and recieve
> button" then it spends a minute waiting for a reply. Netscape mail on
> the other hand, keeps on sending requests for mail until there is a
> reply. Whenever they first run outlook and send/recieve ...it makes the
> diald box dial out, well it will connect, but then outlook says "Could
> not find mailbox ..." and you click send/recieve again, and it works
> fine (because it's already connected and doesn't have to dial out)....Is
> there a way where i can get rid of the first error message from
> outlook? Do i need to use some sort of caching proggie, like squid?
> Someone also said that Outlook puts its timeouts in the registry, in
> that case i guess i would have to look through the registry and edit
> that.... Well, any help would be appreciated, thank you.
> -Ethan
>
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