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

> >> 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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