KB00022603 Web Proxy Quickstart Guide

The Mailtraq Proxy make it possible for every machine on your network to browse the Internet web pages through a single dial-up connection.

The proxy is an optional extra to the Mailtraq Professional license.

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Configuring Mailtraq

Mailtraq's Web Proxy is enabled by default, but follow these steps to ensure it is active and correctly configured (also see Configuration Tips at the foot of this page)

1. Go to Options -> Services
2. If no WWW Server (HTTP) exists on port 8080, then click on Add and select HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) from the menu.
3. Select the WWW Server (HTTP) on port 8080 and click on Properties.
4. Make sure the Provide HTTP Proxy Services is checked
   
   
   
   
5. Click on the Web Proxy tab
6. In a dial-up environment - if you want Mailtraq to connect to the Internet on demand (when a machine tries to connect to a web site) then check the Enable Dialup option, and click on Settings and verify the time-out options
7. If you do want to connect on demand, but want the user to verify this through a special web page, then check the Conditional... option
   
   
   The default settings provide the Guest user with access to the web proxy.

To enforce the 'Conditional' rules it is necessary to revoke that privilege.

 

Go to Options | Users - [Guest] button, and uncheck the 'use web proxy' privilege.

Users will now be asked for their username and password to access the Internet via the proxy and the Conditional rules can be enforced.

 

 

 

 

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Configuring the Web Browsers

You must now configure each Web Browser to use the Mailtraq Proxy. In order to do this, you must be able to refer to the machine running Mailtraq from within your network. The easiest way to do this is to refer to it by the local IP Address.

Configuring Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Go to the Control Panel
2. Double-click on the Internet applet
3. Click on the Connection tab
4. Check the Access the Internet through a Proxy Server option
5. In the Address field, enter the IP Address of the machine running Mailtraq
6. In the Port field, enter 8080
   
   (If the Address and Port fields are disabled, then click on Advanced and enter the information there)
   
   
   
   
7. Check Bypass proxy server for local (Intranet) addresses
   
8. Click on Advanced and in the section Do not use proxy server for addresses beginning with, add the first two numbers from your IP address (e.g. 192.168)

Configuring Firefox

1. Run Firefox and select Tools from the Options menu
2. Open the Advanced section on the right, then select Network - Settings
3. Select Manual Proxy Configuration, and [x] Use this Proxy for all protocols
4. then, enter the IP Address of the machine running Mailtraq into the Address field, and 8080 in the Port field
5. In the section No proxy for: enter localhost, 127.0.0.1 and your LAN (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24)
6. Click on OK
   
    

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Configuration Tips

1.) Proxy performance benefits from adaquate RAM - 2GB of RAM is recommended

2.) Proxy usage produces a large number of logged events. If you do not need detailed logging we recommend turning off logging in the Proxy service.

Go to the Mailtraq Console, Options, Services and select the Proxy service, and then the [Properties] button.

From the Proxy-tab
[x] Disable Request Logging

then [OK] back to the Console.

3.) You can optimize threading for Proxy usage by making a change in the Windows Registry.

You should be qualified to modify the Registry, then with Mailtraq *shut-down*, open the Registry and adjust the number of threads used by the ISM HTTP server . 
Set the thread count in the registry like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Fastraq\Mailtraq]
IsmThreads = "8" (DWORD)

So, at [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Fastraq\Mailtraq]
create a new DWORD value.
Call it IsmThreads
and then modify the Decimal "Value data:" to be   8

It will look like this when you are done: