Re: [WinMac] Re: Mac Inet access behind MS proxy server?

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 07:33:40 -0700

Doug Norton wrote:
>
> We use MS Proxy and it works great, as I think you've found, for the
> web, but email is a different story.
>
> The only email client I can get to work is Cyberdog. As far as I know you
> must use a SOCKS compatible email client. Eudora, Emailer, MailSmith, and
> Outlook
> Express (I've tried and tried with OE and I can't get it to work) do not
> support
> SOCKS. I'd love to be proved wrong about Outlook Express, I've emailed
> Microsoft many times about how to configure OE for socks but no reply...

While I have no experience using proxies, Netscape does have a SOCKS host line
in the proxies setup, so I would presume that it would work, too...

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