RE: [squid-users] pop3 servers-nobody is exactly interested in caching

From: "Jason Anthony P. Vidaure" <jason.vidaure@symbolsciences.com>
Subject: RE: [squid-users] accessing pop3 servers
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:21:30 +0800

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It could be that nobody is exactly interested in caching their email,
>>The above statement is not true because it seems every month
>>some one wants to use squid as a proxy server for pop email.
>>When I asked about this Henrik as I recall was concerned about
>>security. He believed that the squid server could be used as an
>>open relay which I thought was curious argument since the
>>pop/imap clients that I have seen allow you to specify a different
>>outgoing mail server. Certainly, I envisioned such a proxy server as
>>being behind a firewall with an antivirus scanner on the proxy
>>server. With regard to open relay I suppose this threat is the
>>same as any misconfigured smtp mail server.
>>However, the larger question I believe is should caching only be
>>limited to web objects or be extended to database objects, citrix
>>applications,pop, imap, ldap, realaudio,...
>>Maybe Soap will provide a method for encapsulating different datatypes
>>which can be cached and streamed to the user, I don't know. I do believe
>>that there is interest in caching
>>email for both efficiency and security.
>>
>>Raymond Jacob

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Received on Mon Dec 09 2002 - 10:58:32 MST