i have 3 accounts set up in my mozilla thunderbird client, and for a few days i’ve had a problem with checking my e-mail on two of them. before that everything was working fine. i get a message:
cannot connect to server pop3.something.something - the connection was refused.
i’ve read some other forums and in similar cases people suggested that it’s a firewall problem.
so i checked by disabling comodo firewall and it was working perfectly again.
thunderbird has all the permissions set for allow in comodo - in the firewall section it is set as an e-mail client, and it it set as a trusted application in defense+
i noticed that these two accounts connect to pop3 on port 110, while the third account that is working fine (gmail) connects on port 995.
so i tried to add a firewall rule to thunderbird so it could accept connections on port 110, but unsuccesfully (maybe i’m doing it wrong…)
i don’t know what else to do, please help!
It may also be a service problem. I’m having trouble with Yahoo–more like Yahoo’s been having service problems intermittently for quite a long time now.
i don’t think it’s a problem with the service, cause each of these 2 accounts is from a different service, and besides, everything works just fine if i disable the comodo firewall.
but gmail connects just fine, it’s those other 2 accounts that don’t - they use port 110.
so i added a rule with port 110 instead of 995 for them and it didn’t help.
it’s all very strange, cause both ports are listed under pop3/smtp in “my port sets” in comodo, and it looks like this:
ok, i solved it
i don’t know how it happened, but in the account settings i had the safe connection ssl turned off.
i ticked it, and the port used by pop3 changed from 110 to 995, like the gmail one, and both accounts started connecting!
