Re: [squid-users] Not able to access Thunderbird from a linux client through squid

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
<uhlar_at_fantomas.sk> wrote:
>> >> 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.
>
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> On 29.09.09 12:22, Avinash Rao wrote:
>> 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.
>
> He just said it. Squid is a HTTP proxy and can not be used as proxy for
> POP/IMAP/SMTP protocols. You must connect to those services directly, not
> through proxy.
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Matus,

Thank you for your message. That is what i am saying, I have
configured Thunderbird to access internet directly and still it
doesn't work.

Avinash
Received on Tue Oct 13 2009 - 05:42:54 MDT