We have this situation: our email with thunderbird is accessed only inside the company, so its fine with the proxy, but enigmail requires a connection to outside and the proxy is blocking, our proxy requires authentication but thunderbird doesnt show any popup to set the log/pass, if I set it manually user:pass@server.com it works fine, but its not the best solution, the password keeps opened. Is there a way to force thudnerbird or enigmail to popup a box to set the log/pass ?? Or any other solution?
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Actually Enigmail does not require any network access. However, GnuPG does require network access for downloading keys from key servers.
The solution is to set up the proxy in Thunderbird (Preferences > Advanced > Network & Disk Space). Then, before you try to use it with Enigmail, you load a web page with Thunderbird. The easiest way is to restart Thunderbird and wait for the start page to be loaded. Just make sure that the Start Page is set to the default or any web page on the internet, such that the proxy is really used (Preferences > General).
You will then be prompted for the username/password, which you should save in Thunderbird. Enigmail should afterwards automatically use the password.
I must admit that this piece of code is very rarely used; I'm not sure if it still works ...
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We have this situation: our email with thunderbird is accessed only inside the company, so its fine with the proxy, but enigmail requires a connection to outside and the proxy is blocking, our proxy requires authentication but thunderbird doesnt show any popup to set the log/pass, if I set it manually user:pass@server.com it works fine, but its not the best solution, the password keeps opened. Is there a way to force thudnerbird or enigmail to popup a box to set the log/pass ?? Or any other solution?
Actually Enigmail does not require any network access. However, GnuPG does require network access for downloading keys from key servers.
The solution is to set up the proxy in Thunderbird (Preferences > Advanced > Network & Disk Space). Then, before you try to use it with Enigmail, you load a web page with Thunderbird. The easiest way is to restart Thunderbird and wait for the start page to be loaded. Just make sure that the Start Page is set to the default or any web page on the internet, such that the proxy is really used (Preferences > General).
You will then be prompted for the username/password, which you should save in Thunderbird. Enigmail should afterwards automatically use the password.
I must admit that this piece of code is very rarely used; I'm not sure if it still works ...