@Blues Renegade I think you are missing the point that the port numbers used by the Webmail extension are *localhost* ports. These are entirely internal to your machine and bear no connection to the list you have posted. You can run a server on your system and use port 1025 for it for external users to connect to it and run Webmail using port *localhost* port 1025 at the same time without conflict.
So to be clear - the list of "well known" ports has no application at all to the ports used by the Webmail extensions. On Oct 3, 7:45 am, Blues Renegade <[email protected]> wrote: > In layman language: > > Port 1025 is listed as being assigned to: network blackjack > > If I chose to run a blackjack server on my local machine AND that blackjack > server defaults to port 1025, THEN I could have a collision issue with the > webmail extension IF I have ALSO configured it to use port 1025. > > Otherwise, without a blackjack server (or any other server) installed that > uses port 1025, I can safely use port 1025 to my heart's content. > > John > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
