On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Avinash Rao wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using squid2.6stable18 on ubuntu 8.04 server.
>> I have configured squid for very basic proxy and my squid.conf is below.
>> I am not able to access thunderbird email through this proxy
>> configuration, I am using thunderbird from a Ubuntu client, but i am
>> able to access internet using Mozilla Firefox browser, but not
>> thunderbird. How can i get this working?
>>
>> The thunderbird client uses Port 110 and 25 to access emails and i
>> have enabled them here.
>
> Thunderbird does not use HTTP proxy for email fetching.
>
> It will only use HTTP proxy settings for fetching HTML content images,
> videos and virus code which are embeded.
>
> The emails themselves are fetched via native POP3 or IMAP protocols.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
> �Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE6 or 3.0.STABLE19
> �Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.13
>
I understand, but why isn't it working? If the machine has direct
connection to internet (modem connected to the machine) thunderbird
works, but if it has to go through proxy it doesn't work.
Received on Tue Sep 29 2009 - 06:52:35 MDT
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