[Spambayes] Configuring proxy details?
Tony Meyer
tameyer at ihug.co.nz
Wed Dec 29 02:12:06 CET 2004
> This must be a FAQ,
Nope :)
> I'm running Outlook 2003 on Windows XP behind a corporate
> firewall. If I click "Check for new versions" I get a busy
> hourglass for a while, and when it times out I get a message
> telling me to check my Internet connection.
> The "new in 1.0.1" notes say: "Checking whether a new version
> is available should now work for users who have entered proxy
> details in their configuration file." So how do I enter proxy
> details in my configuration file?
Note that this will not work if you use the "Automatic configuration file"
setting for a proxy, which IE and various other browsers support.
Supporting that is just too much work to be worth doing for something like
checking for a new version.
If you do have actual proxy details to enter, then:
1. Open the "default_bayes_customize.ini" file in your data directory.
If there isn't such a file, create one (with (eg) Notepad).
2. At the end of that file, add these lines, filling in the appropriate
details (excluding the """):
"""
[globals]
proxy_username:username
proxy_password:password
proxy_server:proxy.example.com:8081
"""
If you don't need to specify a username/password, you can leave those lines
out. If your proxy port is 8080, you can leave out the (eg) :8081 part.
3. Restart Outlook.
=Tony.Meyer
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