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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as proxy server for mail client
To: mnewton@newland.com (mnewton)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:46:26 -0600 (CST)
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mnewton wrote:
> I have a BSD box connected as a proxy server (Squid) with a static IP .I
> have 25 pc's attached on a local IP net browsing and popping mail from
> the BSD pc. I have some users that have other mail servers on the
> "outside" that I need to proxy thru' the BSD box. Do I use IPFW or SOCKS
> to do this ??.
>  Will it conflict with SQUID ??? etc etc.

I don't know of a proxy that will work for this in the RIGHT way.  I would
just load up a cron job to run popclient every so often and put the mail
in the machines mail box.

> 
> thx mn
> 

Gary
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