On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:13:22PM -0800, chuckee wrote:
> Well, the thing is that I don't want to have to get my users to enter
> 'mail.myserver.com' as the SMTP server. I want them to be able to just enter
> 'myserver.com' as the server name. I already have many, many users, and
> getting them to all change over to mail.myserver.com would not be easy.
> Hence, I am not sure that I can use a second IP address.
It could also be that some of your users on these HTTP-only (so-called)
"Internet connections" are actually behind HTTP proxies (maybe transparent
proxies, maybe non-transparent). If that is the case, running a non-HTTP
service on port 80 won't help you.
Assuming the clients' machines are under their control, you might be better
off tracking down some sort of VPN-over-HTTP software. But even if you do
that, that still involves getting all of your clients to install that software
and maybe also change their mail settings, and you've already indicated that
you aren't happy with any solution which requires changes on the customers'
machines.
Which raises the question, what settings are they using now? If they're not
configured to use port 80 already, then you have already contradicted
yourself.
The bottom line is, I believe you have set yourself an impossible goal.
Sorry.
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Dave Evans
http://djce.org.uk/
http://djce.org.uk/pgpkey
