Cant get the Http-filtering proxy to work

[Finsh]

Hey Guys,

im trying to get a http-filtering proxy in a firewall vm to work for my Email-appvm.
The reason is im using a google-mail account, so i cant use the normal firewall resolving to ipadresses.

I followed the tutorial to the letter, and as far as i can tell, everything worked fine, the script can properly recognize the rule files,
when i run " sudo /rw/config/tinyproxy/proxyctl.py show " everything is as expected.
Name IP Interface Proxy_Pid
privatmail 10.137.6.19 vif10.0 1265

However, when i configure thunderbird to use the firewallvm proxy settings, the complete internet connection is blocked.

I set the Thunderbird-networksettings like so:

Port 8100 Http-proxy: 10.137.5.1 (which is the gateway of the firewall-vm)

the firewall-rules of the email-vm i set to "deny network access except..." and unchecked "allow ICMP traffic" and "allow DNS queries"

i tried everything i could think of, but just couldnt get it to work :(.

Help is much appreciated

cheers.

[Unman]

I dont understand what you are trying to do here - that tutorial is for
setting up a http-filtering proxy using tinyproxy.
I'm not convinced that tinyproxy offers what you want, which is a fully
featured proxy server - that's on the assumption that you're trying to
use IMAP SMTP at gmail. I could be completely wrong about this.

If you want to test your current set-up the simplest thing to do would
be to set a proxy in firefox, and see if you can access web sites by
name and by IP address.
Depending on what filtering rule you have you should see content or see
a message from tinyproxy.

You should be able to see the traffic on your firewall, so you can
understand what is happening.
A combination of iptables -L -nv and tinyproxy logging should help you
understand what's going on on the firewall.

That way you will be clear that you have the proxy set up and working
properly.

unman

[Finsh]

Hey, thanks for your answer.Maybe i understood the purpose wrong, my english is horrible ;(.

What im trying to achieve is to be properly able to use my gmail account along with the others in one email-appvm, with tight firewallrules which only allow traffic with the email-provider-servers.
But since the firewall resolves to ipadresses, an the gmail-server-ipadress changes frequently , this doesnt work with gmail( it does just fine with all my other accounts though)

cheers