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Re: [fetchmail]Fetchmail on Linux behind MS ISA server !

2004-12-02 08:41:53
Thank you for a quick reply.

--- Rob MacGregor <rob(_dot_)macgregor(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 06:34:25 -0800 (PST), Meraj
Rasool Khattak
<mrkkhattak(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> wrote:
Thank you for pointing out about Windows ISA
server.

ISA server is Microsoft's proxy server which runs
on
Windows 2000 etc.

I am behind that proxy server & I don't know how
could
I tell fetchmail to resolve "naqoosh.com" through
the
proxy server & fetch mail ?

Well, DNS is really a Linux problem - configure your
/etc/resolv.conf
to use the ISA server for DNS (I suspect).

my /etc/resolv.conf file

<resolv_conf>
nameserver 192.168.0.1
<resolv_conf>

It contains the ip address of the gateway / dns
server. For browsing I define 192.168.0.3 or 2 in
proxy's addresses.   


As for using the proxy, the man page provides
details (just) on using
SSH tunnels etc.  You're probably trying to do
something similar. 
However it depends on what ISA server supports - if
it's socks you're
sorted (Google for "runsocks").

I asked the admin of ISA server, he told me that they
are using Socks4 on their server.

Yesterday I tried using runsocks (sock5) but I just
couldn't understand it properly. Any guidlines or
hints or online links for help in this ?


Alternatively, try opening up outbound port 110/TCP
(POP) or 143/TCP
(IMAP) on the ISA server.


The ISA admin has opened all these ports for me.

Even after going through the above I was not able to
fetchmail (same canonical dns name).

Any help in this regard will be highly apreciated.

Regards & thanks,

-Meraj Khattak



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