Eudora behind wingate

[Nickcica]

I recently installed wingate 5 primarily for internet sharing. I use Eudora 4.3 and on the principal machine, it works perfectly of course. However, although the internet works perfectly via the client machine, when we try to check e-mail using Eudora from the client machine, it fails. Just as it always failed with outlook. The wingate help guide is incomprehensible. Could someone describe in simple terms what the problem is and how to cure it.
Nick

 

[jrbarnett]

Nick,

I don't know Wingate specifically, but have used a number of competing products. The trick of getting any email client whether eudora or anything else to run through a proxy server is as follows:

The SMTP and POP3 protocols used for internet email do not specifically support proxy servers, so what is needed is a pass through port on the proxy server that forwards requests to your ISP's email server, then returns any responses to it.
Typically you would set up port 25 on the wingate machine to connect to smtp.isp.com and 110 on the wingate machine to connect to pop3.isp.com (or whatever your ISP's servers are), then on your PC tell it to connect to use the IP or DNS name of the wingate machine as the email server. When your Eudora connects to the wingate PC, this forwards the request to the internet and any responses get sent back in the reverse direction.

If you need more help please get in touch.

John