Good question, Phil! You arbitrarily selected those ports without any idea what might be using them. Now what happens when you try to use the application or service that expects those ports to be reserved for its use? If the app or service fails, how long might it take to discover there's an issue with the port being shared? And what makes the troubleshooting issue worse, the problem could seem to occur intermittently, since TB would only be using the ports when receiving or sending email.
Does that help to understand why I posted the list of reserved ports? I always refer to it before assigning ports to an app. If the port's reserved usage is for an application or service you'll never install or run, then you're probably safe using that port. When other apps and services query that port to see if a particular app or service is on the system and running, what's the impact on the applcation or service you have running there? I don't have all the answers, I just try to be cautious and more informed before arbitrarily setting up programs/services to use ports. John On Oct 3, 5:09 am, Phil <[email protected]> wrote: > There must be important relevance to this post, but I do not know it > as I have probably missed many conversations leading up to your > posting of it and its connected topics. > > Using Freepops, Web2Pop and Webmail extensions for Yahoo.com, > Hotmail.com, (e)mail.com, linuxmail.org etc through Outlook Express, > Eudora and Thunderbird at various times I have arbitrarily chosen to > use Ports 1100 and 2000. Is this the sort of thing you have in mind? > > Does doing this contravene the content of the IANA documented uses: > looking at the list neither seems to be too specialised or > complicated. > Who has the authority, the clout, to tell us what we can or cannot > use? Is there some central organising body with future planning? Who > appointed them and where did THEY get the power, authority or clout to > dictate conditions in this frontier virtual world of the Internet? > > Would you be so kind as to give me an idea if I should go to really > high numbers, and if so which work AOK? > > Thanks, Phillip > > On Oct 3, 9:54 am, Blues Renegade <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
