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Re: icedove configuration problem



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 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....


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!


I haven't tried this, but I think if you set up the account under Icedove with the default ports and ignore any warnings about it failing to connect, you can later go to the account settings and change the port numbers to anything you like.

Dom


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