Authentication with Windows CE on a PDA via GRPS dialup

[missionhq]

I want to allow one of our users outside of the Wingate firewall to access his emails on our exchange 5.5 server via a PDA (02 XDAii) running Windows CE 3 with a GPRS connection.

I currently allow our external lap-top users to authenticate via GateKeeper. & all works OK

Is there a way to authenticate from outside the firewall using WindowsCE?
Can I Authenticate with the Java HTTP authentication without allowing outside access to the WWW Proxy?

[neil]

Hmmm not really. There are only 3 ways of reaching the level of 'authenticated' in WinGate. One is logging in via GateKeeper, another is using the java logon (which would indeed require the service to be bound externally in this case) or via the WGIC. Are you wanting SMTP auth as well as for POP3? IF this were the case you could set up WinGate to use WinGate mail, but have it forward things on to your Exchange Server afterwards. This would allow you to use the SMTP (and POP) auth options in the Security tab of WinGate mail. For more info on WinGate mail and how Email security works in WinGate see:

http://www.wingate.com/files/Mail_Server_Scenarios.pdf

and

http://www.wingate.com/resources.php?id=12

Regards

Neil

[missionhq]

Thanks for the info Neil.

Just out of interest, could I create a second 'WWW Proxy service' on a seperate port#, bound to the outside world but with no rights, just for authentication? - or something similar?

I want to use IMAP for mail, and know that if I open port 143 to the outside world it works fine - I just don't want to open port 143 to everyone