Configure Mail Clients

As the final step, now configure the mail client programs on the computers in your internal network to use the Trilent Mail Proxy. The exact procedure depends on your specific mail program: Outlook Express, Eudora, or Messenger. For example, the configuration of the Microsoft® Outlook Express is as follows. Start the mail program, click on "Tools" menu, click on "Accounts..", select your default mail account, click on "Properties" button, click on "Servers" tab. The screen will look like this:

The Trilent Mail Proxy (installed on the gateway host) now acts as a mail server for the computers on the internal network, so the "Servers" entry should contain the IP address of the proxy (that is the same as the inside interface address of the gateway host.) In our example network shown here:

that address is 192.168.0.1. Both entries should be identical since the Trilent Mail Proxy handles both the incoming and outgoing mail. The account name and password are transparent to the proxy and should remain unchanged from your original mail configuration. If you changed the default values of the SMTP and POP3 port numbers in the Configure the Mail Proxy section, enter them also here, under the "Advanced" tab.