Update. . . I just noticed that you will have to allow traffic through ports 5001 and 5004 in order to access your Trash, Draft, and Sent folders of your webmail account within your NAT.
Quick recap: INBOX (imap) authentication? -> 5005 Trash authentication? -> 5001 Draft/Sent authentication? -> 5004 smpt.netscape.net authentication? -> 5000 So far I don't know what 5002 & 5003 do. Does Anyone else? Just thought I would update this info. 8^) Late Gustavo Solari-Bortolotti wrote: > I just finished doing some network tracing and found out a couple of > things I was not aware I should do in order to send/receive with my > netscape mail service. > > In my case, I am behind a router/firewall, and as per standard service > port definitions I had activated rules to let traffic for the standard > services (pop,imap,news, and ssl[news&mail]) within my local NAT. > However, through some digging around as to how NS6.1 attemps to connect > to the Webmail service, I discovered I needed to allow traffic to flow > through ports 5000 (for smtp.netscape.net authentication) and 5005 (for > imap.mail.netcenter.com authentication) within my NAT as well. I guess > Netscape/AOL uses a proprietary form of authenticating users, and after > I allowed traffic through both ports my webmail works like a charm. . . > I did not see any info on this anywhere, and that is why I am posting > it here so that this information could possibly help others who might be > scratching their heads with connection failures like I had. > > Hope this helps someone. ;^) > > Late > > > Douglas Bonneville wrote: > >> The netscape mail account I have used for sometime now says "cannot >> connect to server" using 6.1 mail client - now I can't see the folders >> either. But the mail is all there in the webmail interface. How can I >> get my mail using the 6.1 client?? I also set up a 6.1 access for my >> other netscape account and it works. Why can I get to it via browser >> but not client? >> >> Doug Bonneville >> Senior Designer >> AOL Web Properties >> >
