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I want to use Thunderbird for Live Mail and GMail but no matter what I try I can't open ports below 1024. That's not a problem for live mail as ...
  1. 11-04-2008 #1
    jaygee02
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    Can't use ports below 1024 in Thunderbird

    I want to use Thunderbird for Live Mail and GMail but no matter what I try I can't open ports below 1024. That's not a problem for live mail as I just set it to a higher port but GMail apparently needs port 465. I can't find where this is being set, disabling the firewall entirely didn't even change things. Where about is this setting kept? Or is it just hard coded into the kernel?
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    ports below 1024 are reserved for OS, you can't use them, you shouldn't need to open ports to access e-mail from thunderbird
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    Well GMail doesn't seem to work while live mail does when I set it to a higher port so I figured it must be a port issue?
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