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Title: IMP Behind Firewall
Post by: Mark Worley on June 10, 2003, 08:38:01 AM

Hi,
I've got IMP on SME 5.6 behind a linux firewall (smoothwall). I've port-forwarded port 2000 to the internal IP of the SME box and then use http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2000/webmail to connect to IMP from outside the firewall. I'm getting all sorts of problems with IE dropping the :2000 from the URL. The only way around this seems to be to continually adding the :2000 manually to the URL. This is no good for inexperienced users.
Does anyone have a solution for this?
Thanks
Mark Worley

Title: Re: IMP Behind Firewall
Post by: Julian Jago on June 10, 2003, 01:43:16 PM

Mark,

Have you tryed swapping the address around to have the port number at the very end of the URL as follows? << http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/webmail:2000 >>

You may have already tried this but you never know.


Regards,

JSJ

Title: Re: IMP Behind Firewall
Post by: Dan Brown on June 10, 2003, 05:08:54 PM

Well, one solution is to get rid of the firewall entirely; SME has one built in.  The other option is probably to mess with /home/httpd/html/horde/config/registry.php.

Title: Re: IMP Behind Firewall
Post by: Paul Crookes on June 11, 2003, 12:04:29 AM

no no no no no no no...

just set SME to use https only

Then open and forward port 443

and use

https://xxx.xxxx.xx/webmail

it is much better.

i run smoothwall here and i have no problems at all

Paul

Title: Re: IMP Behind Firewall
Post by: Mark Worley on June 11, 2003, 01:57:34 AM

Thanks Paul. This is exactly the solution I have implemented. No need for any port specification in the URL at all.

Title: Re: IMP Behind Firewall
Post by: Paul Crookes on June 11, 2003, 02:24:12 AM

:)

Title: Re: IMP Behind Firewall
Post by: Ron on June 25, 2003, 04:28:29 PM

Dan,

My thought exactly!!  Why us humans always want to complicate a elegant and simple solution defies my logic sometimes.  The KISS method works for me time & time again.  Keep It Simple Stupid.  

Regards & Keep up all that fanastic effort Dan

Ron