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Impossible to choose port on SMTP server

Asked by Helge Fredriksen

Binary package hint: evolution

I want to connect to the gmail SMTP server. It requires me to set 465 or 587 as port number. Thunderbird support this setting, but evolution does not. Why?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #368869.

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Helge Fredriksen (helgeingvart) said : 		#1
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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

For reference, you do not need to specify a port for SMTP on GMAIL, but you do not to use SSL encryption, and plain authentication.

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) said : 		#3

Ah well. I meant "you *do* need to use SSL encryption ...".

Sorry for the mistype.

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