Re: icedove configuration problem
Hello,
On 11/08/13 11:22, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> As thunderbird is banned from debian, I try to setup my email account
> using icedove.
>
> It fails! For 2 reasons:
>
> 1- I presume that icedove check if my email address is a "valid" address
> (and it is, I use it since almost 20 years at Paris Descartes
> University) in some data bases. As it seems to fail to find it, It
> reject it.... (even using "manual" configuration).
>
> 2- I use to use an ssh tunnel to link some port (>1048) of my machine to
> the smtp port of the mail server at the university. Icedove allows to
> only use ports 25, 587 and 465....
I would install and configure exim (smarthost configuration) to play with smtp first.
Once your exim setup works as expected, then icedove can be configured to send via
the local port 25.
>
>
> What is this way of doing? Some people somewhere want to help "ignorant"
> people to configure their mail? Or is it now like in past SSSR: only one
> address for everybody? That's will easier for the NSA!
>
>
> What shall I do? Change my email address? Use mutt?
>
> Thank you for any help and sorry for the groaning!
>
>
>
hth,
Jerome
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