Outlook account poser

[yeti]

I'm setting up OutlookXP on a portable to be used in two locations - in the office and outside the office.

The former is behind our firewall and the latter is outside it.

The problem is that, for mail to work, I have to specify one POP3 address for "in the office" and another fir "Outside the office" - this is because my POP3 server is hosted inside my network and is seen by the outside world as a different IP address.

To get around this, I've set up two Outlook mail accounts. This works except that I have to disable one of the accounts whenever I change location.

Can anyone think of a better solution?

If not, is it possible to use a VBA macro to simplify the enabling / disabling of the accounts?

Any help would be appreciated.

Andrew

 

[danvlas]

Have you tried accessing the POP3 server from inside using the routable IP address (the one visible from the Internet)?

My mail server is on a Linux machine and I can access it using either address from inside, but only the 'outside'IP from the Internet.

HTH

Daniel Vlas
Systems Consultant
danvlas@yahoo.com

 

[yeti]

This would have been the ideal solution - however, our Watchgard SoHo firewall doesn't appear to support this feature... hmmmmmmm

AD

 

[danvlas]

If you can access the routable IP from the Internet but can't from inside the LAN, your firewall is either misconfigured or you don't have permission to connect to the Internet from your network. If you do have http access but NOT POP3, it seems to be misconfigured.

Talk to the sysadmin to configure the firewall in such a way that it accepts connections on the routable IP for POP3 access only from any location.
Hope your sysadmin is not a BOFH...



Daniel Vlas
Systems Consultant
danvlas@yahoo.com

 

[yeti]

This is a limitation of the Watchguard Soho firewall - so no can do (it's also a limitation of it's bigger brother the Firebox). Isn't technology fun.

Andrew