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Can default mail ports be changed in Empathy?

Asked by Al Corkins

For security reasons, my ISP requires the use of port 465 for smtp and 995 for pop, rather than port 25. I could not find how to change from the default port in empathy, so I ended up using Thunderbird.

I'd like to try empathy as it seems more integrated with Ubuntu, but I need the ability to change ports.

My ISP is one of the US nationwide providers, so I would imagine there might be a lot of need for this.

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Al Corkins (boat-guy) said : 		#1

Sorry, I meant to say Evolution - I guess being up late at night and tired leads to mistakes.

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Best Liam Dunn (ldunn) said : 		#2

When you create an account, and it asks you for your POP server, enter the server, and then append ":995" to it. Note the colon at the start. Do a similar thing when it asks you for your SMTP server, do the same thing, appending ":465" instead. Hopefully this helps

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Al Corkins (boat-guy) said : 		#3

Thanks, that worked.

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Al Corkins (boat-guy) said : 		#4

Thanks Liam Dunn, that solved my question.