[yannithedj]

I'm studying abroad this semester at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and due to their firewall, I'm having lots of trouble getting programs to work. All the proxy settings (along with a user/pswd) had to be manually set for each and every program that needed to get outside the Monash network for anything, but I'm having issues with the following programs: Mail is unable to connect to my home university's IMAP mail server; iChat can't get past the proxy, but AOL Instant Messenger can; MSN Messenger can't, because it won't let me set a user/pswd for the proxy; Ecto won't work because it won't let me activate a proxy option at all; and I also can't FTP in to my website at all with any program that I have, including Transmit, Firefox, IE, Safari, nothing. The IT department here at Monash isn't terribly sympathetic to my troubles, because these are all technically "non-academic" programs, but I'd like to be able to post pictures to my website while I'm studying abroad this semester in Australia, and using a desktop mail client would be infinitely better than a webmail interface (mostly because of Address Book's integration with Apple Mail). So if anyone out there has any suggestions for me to try, I'd be infinitely grateful!

Thanks,
Jared

[MilkmanDan]

This is quite sad, because I miss my roomie, and I would very much like to see his photos. Though I'm quite happy he took my advice and posted on MacNN. He's a 'switcher' as of two months ago, so please be nice. Even extra nice, if you can do so.

[Nexus5]

Try Authoxy:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16500

nexus5

[Laurence]

Authoxy is excellent, but seems to be unstable for me. (the daemon is rock solid, but the PreferencePane interface seems to crash whenever I try to modify the settings) Another similar app I've had good luck with is "SquidMan" it is just a front-end to the opensource squid caching proxy server.

[yannithedj]

Thanks so much for suggesting Authoxy, it got iChat and MSN Messenger working for me. :-) Now I just have to try to get Mail and an FTP client working (I'll check with Monash IT about the FTP thing, and come up with a reasonable academic excuse for needing it). Does anyone know where or how I can set the proxy settings for Apple Mail? I've been looking and looking and haven't been able to find where the connection/proxy settings are. I found the outgoing mail server connection settings, but that's not what I need. I need to be able to set the proxy settings so that I can get out from behind this stupid Aussie uni firewall and check my email. Thanks much.

Jared
www.seenoevil.org./~jared/blog/

[yannithedj]

The link at the bottom of my last post won't work because I somehow inserted an extra period in there. It should read: www.seenoevil.org/~jared/blog/

[MilkmanDan]

bump

[MilkmanDan]

bump bump. Any ideas for this lonely traveler down under?