Guest Chuck Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 Hi again, another newbie question. I know that there is NeoMail and IMP available, but if i need to access the webmail from my "real job", is that potentially going to be a problem. I know there is a restrictive firewall in place, I just dont know what ports it blocks, or even what that really means. Also, I saw someone installed SquirrelMail on their account, and was able to access their webmail from behind the firewall. How is this different? Thanks in advance! Chuck Quote
KevinW Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 Accessing your TCH mail accounts via the web requires access to port 2095. So you would need to check with your network administrator at your business to see whether they block it or not. I can't tell you about SquirrelMail - except that it is written in PHP and is designed as a web browser based mail client. http://www.squirrelmail.org/about.php The fact remains that the path to getting your mail on your server is thru port 2095 leads me to wonder if or how it would help. Any SquirrelMail gurus out there???? -kw Quote
rayners Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 Accessing your TCH mail through the "official" webmail clients requires use of port 2095. You can, however, install something like SquirrelMail on your site, and it will operate like any other part of your site (i.e. on port 80). Quote
KevinW Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 Duh! I thought SquirrelMail was simply a workstation email client. But then, it's written in PHP and would porbably be installed on your server. Is that correct? If so, I guess I have some exploring to do this weekend! -kw Quote
Lianna Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 KW, SquirrelMail is web-based mail. I downloaded it last weekend to test the install methods......didn't get back to it yet. LOL Lianna Quote
Larry Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 i installed it about a week ago, my company blocks everything but port 80 (proxy server) it works wonders. plus i could of just used a normal webmail site, but my company also blocks them (no fun here) Quote
KevinW Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 Thanks, Larry. I'll work on some quick instructions for users to reference! -kw Quote
noced Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 Firewall blocking really sucks. I can't access my control panel from 90% of the locations I have internet access from. Damn college. Quote
Lianna Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 Ah, the price we pay for higher education. I guess it could be worse....no college at all? Lianna Quote
Larry Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 one thing to note, it took ssh access for me to set it up.. as it uses a perl script to configure the settings which needs to be ran from the command prompt. its easy to setup if you go to the squirrelmail website, they got a faq section with quick and dirty install instructions took a total of 5 minutes for me to install it.. Quote
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