What you use for internal ports on your own system, such as the port numbers used by the extensions to communicate with Thunderbird is entirely up to you. Such internal port assignments have no effect on any other Internet user, the only question is whether your operating system allows you to use the port numbers or not. External ports used to communicate across public networks such as the Internet are best chosen to follow accepted standard allocations, but no-one has the right to enforce this. However use of non-standard ports on public networks could cause confusion, no sense in rocking the boat just for the sake of it.
Phil 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
