GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 209739
not obvious how to use arbitrary port for IMAP/SMTP/etc
Last modified: 2005-11-15 02:22:21 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: I am trying to access my company's IMAP server from a remote location through an ssh tunnel. In order to get this to work, I need to map port 143 on the remote machine to some port on my workstation. Right now, I can only do this to port 143 on my local machine since Evolution does not allow me to configure it to connect to an arbitrary port. Of course, to create a service that listens on a port < 1024, I must be root. This is not ideal. This especially hits when I need to map port 25 on my workstation to the remote, tunnelled server since I then cannot run sendmail on my workstation. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. open mail config. 2. select IMAP server 3. realize there is no box to override server port (not even an expert mode that would allow this). Actual Results: must connnect to port 143 Expected Results: should allow to connect to any port How often does this happen? ... Additional Information: mozilla mail seems to support this feature.
Actually, you can--just append it to the hostname, eg "smtp.foo.com:999" We didn't want to make this option too prominent, because 99% of users will never use it. But no one ever seems to figure out how to do this, so we need a document it or make it more obvious somehow.
I have added this information as a note in the "Configuration and Preferences" section of the manual. It says: Your system administrator may ask you to connect to a specific port on a mail server. To specify which port you use, just type a colon and the port number after the server name. For example, to connect to port 143 on the server smtp.omniport.com, you would enter as <userinput> smtp.omniport.com:143 </userinput> as the server name.
people don't read docs
Jeff, was there a reason that you reopened this?
Doh. Nm. Closing.
I didn't reopen, danw did. I just re-marked the version from 0.13.99 to "unspecified" since it's not specific to 0.13.99 :-)