Re: google mail and thunderbird -

["Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa gmail com>]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin wildblue net> wrote:
>  >>  Ports 995 and 587 had to be opened in the firewall and there was some
>  >>  resubscribing stuff peculiar to the ISP required.  The user name had to
>  >>  have @wildblue.net appended to it, etc.

You generally don't need to open ports to send email. Do you open port
80 to browse the internet?

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