This attitude isn't the way to increase market share. Of course, support the standards. But if you decide to do only that; Netscape/Mozilla borwser use will continue to fall. Since many ISPs are blocking port 25, some users are looking for alternatives. Alternate port SMTP servers are available and work easily with Outlook Express. ??? Outlook security problems ????? ??? Mozilla almost support ??? ??? SSLTunnel kludge ??? Port redirection ????
You guys can win if you are flexible, you will lose if you aren't ! Victor Probo 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. >
