Good day, im using portableapps at work, we are on a secure lan with an exchange server, i have no way to find our proxy settings and info, however, firefox is good enough and have a "use system proxy settings" that works well, however, thunderbird lacks that nice functionnality, is there an update for thunderbird to add this functionnality in it, else, i wont be able to use at all. i intend to use it to check my home mail, which are from a normal pop server.
Eric
thx for your time.
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AFAIK Thunderbird has always had a "Use System Proxy Settings" option, to find it go to
Tools > Options > Advanced > Network & Disk Space > Connection > Settings > Use System Proxy SettingsPlease make sure you have the most up-to-date version, and if it's not there try a clean install and see if it shows up (corrupted settings files can do odd things)
~3D1T0R
It doesn't work when proxy need authentication.
RaphaelRB - Brazil
Try doing the same as mentioned above, but set your proxy configuration to "no proxy" and see if that will work for you.
No, I tried but it doesn't work.
Internet at my office has a proxy and it demands authentication. I can't access my emails setting "no proxy" and I can't access them setting none of the configurations.
It seems that Thunderbird ignores this setting, it makes no difference which one we choose.
I even tried with FoxyProxy AddOn. It works fine with Firefox, but makes no difference with Thunderbird.
(The only way was installing a "proxy layer" like ProxyCap. It stands on background, makes proxy authentication once so every other internet application 'thinks' it is a no proxy environment)
I'm using Thunderbird 5.0 pt-br
RaphaelRB - Brazil
It's not a standard practice to put an internal Exchange server behind a proxy so I presume you're trying to access an E-mail source beyond the firewall and outside your network. It is a common practice to block the POP and SMTP ports at the firewall so my hunch is your problem isn't proxy, it's port access. I posted instructions in the thread below as to how to test SMTP connectivity using the telnet command. That should tell you whether the necessary ports are open.
https://portableapps.com/node/27730