I am trying to set up Mozilla Thunderbird to access one of my E-mail accounts which is hosted on my own server. However, my ISP has blocked both port 25 and port 26 and will apparently make no exceptions to those.

I spoke with my host, and they initially were going to switch port access to 587, but because I am on a shared server, and others were complaining about port 26 being disabled (apparently, only two ports can be used to access the server, 25 and whichever other one is chosen, which is in this case, 26).

So, the only two ports I can use to access the server are the same two ports that my ISP will not allow me to use for SMTP connection.

Is there anything I can do here? Would it be possible to use an HTTP or SOCK proxy in Thunderbird to access the server? How would I configure that?

Thanks!

This is what I came across when googling

http://www.authsmtp.com/faqs/faq-4.html

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it's cause i suck at it. it wasn't helpful. it was the dale earnhardt jr. this is sportscenter commercial where he shuts out the power trying to fix a screensaver.

No big. I just tried something that didn't work yesterday, but is working today: using SSL.

Thanks!

O-Trap wrote: I am trying to set up Mozilla Thunderbird to access one of my E-mail accounts which is hosted on my own server. However, my ISP has blocked both port 25 and port 26 and will apparently make no exceptions to those.

I spoke with my host, and they initially were going to switch port access to 587, but because I am on a shared server, and others were complaining about port 26 being disabled (apparently, only two ports can be used to access the server, 25 and whichever other one is chosen, which is in this case, 26).

So, the only two ports I can use to access the server are the same two ports that my ISP will not allow me to use for SMTP connection.

Is there anything I can do here? Would it be possible to use an HTTP or SOCK proxy in Thunderbird to access the server? How would I configure that?

Thanks!

Your host just needs to open port 587. It won't disable 25 or 26. This is a common thing for a host to do.

I have no idea how to help you on the server side but I can say that you should like Thunderbird when you get it set up. Quick, easy and extensible like Firefox.

Oh I've used T-bird before. Just never with my own mail server.