John, Chris and particularly Alan - thanks I find these little discussions so illuminating for not the least reason that they reveal to me the abyssal state of my ignorance about so many things.
BTW, it seems that this extension is slowly losing ground to developments with what used to be widely used account providers who made it webmail access only for free accounts. In the meantime, we have Gmail and AOL able to be accessed by IMAP, Hotmail offering full POP3 functionality and Yahoo.com able to have POP3 access if assigned to the Asia-Pacific region. I wonder about some of the other webmail services, particularly Safe- Mail. It allows IMAP and POP but insists on being visited by webmail access monthly. Can this webmail extension be adapted to Safe-Mail for instance and include the message that its system requires so as to believe it has been visited by webmail? Cheers, Phil On Oct 4, 5:30 am, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > @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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
