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etellier
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use system proxy settings in portable thunderbird

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 Settings

Please 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

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Not work with ProxyAuth

It doesn't work when proxy need authentication.

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Try no proxy

Try doing the same as mentioned above, but set your proxy configuration to "no proxy" and see if that will work for you.

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No proxy when it's 'proxied'

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

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It's not a standard practice

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

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