know exactly who to contact with that information. I was wondering if there was some work around that I missed, but apparently not. I will just have to send using the dial-up, which will limit my message size. That usually is not a problem. Thank you for indicating the nature of the problem and that I did, in fact, not miss anything in the attempts to use that port.
John Gardiner Myers wrote: > Kerril wrote: > > > The reason is that I cannot find a way in the prefs.js file or in the > > UI of the SMTP server settings to specify the outgoing port and > > authentication. I have even tried adding the ":465" in the server > > field and the prefs.js file. Neither worked. > > Mozilla supports SMTP SSL through the IETF standard protocol documented > in RFC 2487. Port 465 is nonstandard, incompatible, and not supported. > You should ask your provider to support the Internet standard protocols.
