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====== Proxy Chaining ====== | ====== Proxy Chaining ====== | ||
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===== Introduction ===== | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
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POPFile is an email [[Glossary: | POPFile is an email [[Glossary: | ||
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- | || || **Email client**||& | + | | | **Email client** |
- | || **IP address** || //talks to// | + | | **IP address** |
- | || **POP port** | + | | **POP port** |
A mail client sends a request through POPFile to the mail server for email. The mail server responds by sending the email to POPFile which tags the email with categories or buckets and delivers them immediately to the mail client. | A mail client sends a request through POPFile to the mail server for email. The mail server responds by sending the email to POPFile which tags the email with categories or buckets and delivers them immediately to the mail client. | ||
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If you are using any additional email proxies with POPFile such as certain antivirus software, YahooPOPs, YPOPs! or Hotpopper, you need to configure them to work together in a daisy chained fashion like so: | If you are using any additional email proxies with POPFile such as certain antivirus software, YahooPOPs, YPOPs! or Hotpopper, you need to configure them to work together in a daisy chained fashion like so: | ||
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- | || || **Email<br>client** ||& | + | | | **Email client** |
- | || **IP address** || //talks to// || 127.0.0.1|| //talks to// || 127.0.0.1 || //talks to// || mail.isp.net || | + | | **IP address** |
- | || **POP<br>port** | + | | **POP port** |
This allows a virus checker to check email for viruses before they reach POPFile or your mail client or for YahooPOPs or YPOPs! to fetch mail from a Yahoo account. | This allows a virus checker to check email for viruses before they reach POPFile or your mail client or for YahooPOPs or YPOPs! to fetch mail from a Yahoo account. |
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