I have been trying to figure out why Thunderbird can't get my yahoo mail.
It used to work.
I am able to read email thru Firefox.
It uses these ports. 465,587,993, and 995.
Is there a way to tell if those ports are open or being used?
I have no firewall.
Are you using imap? I just started Thunderbird, told it to setup my account, [email protected], it did some things and it was setup. Did not have to setup anything manual. Screenshot of the server settings if that helps you.
smtp shows port 465, attached.
Did you get it to work?
No.
I even tried running it from a pendrive thinking that maybe part of my o.s. was corrupted.
I tried Claws Mail, and it too did not work.
One of those mysteries of "It used to work fine at one time..."
remove the ~/.thunderbird directory, start a fresh Thunderbird and see if it configures your email correctly this time.
I just did,
rm -rf .thunderbird/
started fresh thunderbird,
configure my email, gave it username and pw,
it did its thing and email was configured.
You can find out by using sudo netstat -tuna, which will show both the TCP and UDP ports that are being used.
The ports are listed with the IP addresses (here shown as "Local Address") after the colon like this:
127.0.0.1:1040
So 1040 is the port number.
Make sure Thunderbird is running when you use it. Do you have firewall enabled?
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.53:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:46524 184.26.41.130:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:33420 172.217.2.234:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:54606 23.215.98.113:80 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:35584 172.217.14.163:80 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:58652 98.137.158.139:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:40400 104.16.27.34:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:35174 52.72.70.171:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:52538 152.195.32.120:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:46592 72.21.91.29:80 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:57170 74.6.228.136:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:45926 151.101.1.69:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:53884 172.217.12.74:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:46446 72.21.91.29:80 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:38932 69.147.88.13:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:52970 54.152.146.196:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:46534 184.26.41.130:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:53978 184.172.48.71:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:40838 104.18.45.87:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:60876 69.147.86.12:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:50828 152.195.55.192:443 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:50016 52.202.120.74:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.30:49214 172.217.9.138:443 ESTABLISHED
tcp6 0 0 :::111 :::* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 ::1:631 :::* LISTEN
udp 0 0 127.0.0.53:53 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:68 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:666 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5353 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:58637 0.0.0.0:*
udp6 0 0 :::111 :::*
udp6 0 0 :::49425 :::*
udp6 0 0 :::666 :::*
udp6 0 0 :::5353 :::*
