Proxy / ssh localhost tunneling Setup in Thunderbird Android App

[DD_onmozila]

To be very honest, I think not much people will need this feature. However, all of our institute members will certainly install the app if this feature gets introduced.

Our Institute has its own email server that is accessible through a roundcube web interface only. So we cannot integrate it in native mail client apps easily outside the institutes machine. However, our Institute does provide a gateway via port 2222. So what I do is like:

• Open Termux.
• Run `ssh -L 6001:⟨Institute's mail server URL e.g. mail.instititute⟩:587 -L 6002:⟨Institute's mail server URL⟩:143 username@gateway.institute -p 2222`.
• Now I open ThunderBird which I have initially setup with localhost configuration for incoming (6002) and outgoing (6001) messages.

I would very very much appreciate if ThunderBird Android app can also provide Proxy support / ssh localhost tunneling support during mannual configuration of emails.

Footnote: I believe building the HTML compose support is already underway.

[Jon]

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[OesTuX]

Good idea.

Another use case is when someone has a local mailserver only accessible through ssh.

It allows to bypass googles limitation of space.

Thanks,

OesTuX