Thunderbird thru' a Proxy

mailman · Post by **mailman** » July 30th, 2003, 5:46 am

Dear M scott and others

Thanks a ton for all the feedback
Sorry that I didn't answer immediately

I've obviously got mixed up between HTTP proxies and SOCKS proxies
I'll look for some SOCKS proxies / configure TB with SOCKS proxies and get back to you

Unless I come back to you with further questions, please consider my questions as answered

Thanks once again
The response is too ...goooood

Mailman

tomdkat · Post by **tomdkat** » November 4th, 2004, 12:19 pm

The question I have is this: why is it possible to specify a HTTP proxy if POP3/SMTP can't be proxied via a HTTP proxy? Why not remove the HTTP proxy field from the connection settings options dialog?

Peace...

venkat · Post by **venkat** » November 4th, 2004, 6:50 pm

mscott wrote:Just to recap...

PaulH has confirmed that SOCKS support is working correctly in thunderbird.

What still doesn't work:

Configuring HTTP and SSL Proxy still doesn't force http requests to go through the specified proxy server.

Did I get that right?

I am using TB0.9 and it works in some cases. For example, if I try to add a new RSS subscription, TB does not do proxy authentication and fails to load the feed. But if I try to refresh an already added feed(which I added using TB0.8 ), TB asks for proxy authenticatin and loads the feed without any problem. With TB0.8 this problem isn't there.