Dante Proxy Configuration Problems for POP3/SMTP

Hi all,

I have an office network connected to the Internet through a proxy
computer with 2 NICS ( eth0-192.168.1.5 & eth1-192.168.2.105) running
Mandrake 9.0, Squid and Dante. Squid is running fine and all my windows
and Linux clients can browse the web.

My problem is clients trying to go through the proxy server to download
e-mail (POP3 & SMTP on ports 110 & 25). The clients are trying to
download their e-mail with mozilla and have had the sock5 IP/port
configured to 192.168.2.105/1080.

I have configured Dante, in hopes to manage the POP3 and SMTP traffic,
and my sockd.conf file is listed below. But the clients still can not
see the e-mail server out there in the internet.

Any ideas? Dante (a firewall proxy) is what I need, right? I accept
that I am not a firewall or internet security expert but I am trying and
learning.

thanks,

Phillip J. Allen
e-mail: (E-Mail Removed)


# sockd.conf
logoutput: syslog stdout /var/log/lotsoflogs
logoutput: stderr
internal: 192.168.2.105 port=1080
external: 192.168.1.5
method: username none
user.notprivileged: sockd

client pass {
from: 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
log: connect disconnect
}
pass {
from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0 port gt 24
command: bind
log: connect disconnect
}
pass {
from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
command: connect udpassociate
log: connect disconnect
}
pass {
from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
command: bindreply udpreply
log: connect error
}
block {
from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
log: connect error
}

"Phillip J. Allen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote news:408ac1de_4
@news1.prserv.net:
> My problem is clients trying to go through the proxy server to download
> e-mail (POP3 & SMTP on ports 110 & 25). The clients are trying to
> download their e-mail with mozilla and have had the sock5 IP/port
> configured to 192.168.2.105/1080.
>
> I have configured Dante, in hopes to manage the POP3 and SMTP traffic,
> and my sockd.conf file is listed below. But the clients still can not
> see the e-mail server out there in the internet.

I think the proxy is used only with the Mozilla browser (http, https and
ftp request), and not by the Mozilla mail client.

> Any ideas? Dante (a firewall proxy) is what I need, right? I accept
> that I am not a firewall or internet security expert but I am trying

You should used a Linux configuration that allow outgoing connexions, or
use a pop3 proxy.

To allow outgoing connexions, try :

cat 1 > /proc/net/ip_forwarding

end check the ipchains/iptables rules.


To find a pop3 proxy, which may include an anti-spam modules, search on
http://rpmfind.net or http://freshmeat.net/


Regards