[AuckLUG] Re: A belated thanks and query

[Brian McVicker]

Funny that, I'm still using the original port numbers (110 and 25) with authentication turned off and its still going fine. With the ones they said it fails to send.
However on the Thunderbird issue, all the computers at home run Thunderbird under both windose and linux, could not send.
However my aunt's computer at her place running XP and Outlook express had no such problems (trust me I would have heard immediately if there had been!)

Are we being punished for keeping ourselves secure, or for being different?
Still wouldn't make me give up Linux, Firefox, or Thunderbird though, feel so foreign and powerless when I'm on a windows box now. The windows versions may be prettier and more user (read virus) friendly for some, but having someone watch dumbfounded as you download an entire website through the command line a wget command will always make me smile.

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers,
Brian


Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote: The problem in this case wasn't the commands that were getting sent
and being received but a difference in ports. Would your average user
know to check this?

On 8/30/07, Simon Green  wrote:
> I highly doubt this statement, although don't rule it out completely.
> Thunderbird (in theory) sends the same POP3 and SMTP commands that
> Evolution, Outlook or any other mailer use, so your e-mail client
> shouldn't affect your ability to send mail.
>
> The only exception to this that I could think of is that the way HTML
> encoded e-mail is sent, but this seems unlikely IMO.
>
>   -- simon
>
> On 30/08/2007, Nevyn  wrote:
> > Perhaps the problem was just that the users having problems were those
> > using Thunderbird (the article isn't terribly detailed in the issue -
> > focusing more on the compensation or the lack thereof).
>
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