Re: icedove configuration problem

["Karl E. Jørgensen" <karl.jorgensen@nice.com>]

Hi

On 11/08/13 10:22, François Patte wrote:

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Bonjour,

As thunderbird is banned from debian, I try to setup my email account
using icedove.

It's not "banned".  But Thunderbird as-is does not satisfy the free software guidelines - if I remember correctly there are restrictions on the use of the logo and the trademark "Thunderbird". And since Debian insists that users must have the freedom to modify the software, distributing Thunderbird was not an option. The same logic applies to Firefox v Iceweasel. This is well documented out there on the web:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00328.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622

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).

This is somewhat vague... What error do you get? which which 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....

It *will* try to auto-detect the settings for your email address, but if you need an SSH tunnel to send email, you should not be surprised that auto-detection fails...

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!

It might be easier for the NSA.  But (at least at the moment) they have experienced system administrators working for them.

What shall I do? Change my email address? Use mutt?

Give us some errors to work with. Some diagnostic information. Anything.

Thank you for any help and sorry for the groaning!

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire MAP5 --- UMR CNRS 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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Karl E. Jørgensen