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I would like to access my personal IMAP server through my corporate firewall. This is allowed provided I use the corporate proxy server, which is an HTTP proxy server. I cannot figure out how to configure Thunderbird to honor this proxy server, though. It honors it for HTTP traffic, but not for IMAP and SMTP.

Thunderbird: 15.0 OS: OSX 10.8.1

AFAIK, there is no SOCKS proxy available, just an HTTP proxy. Also, the HTTP proxy allows other protocols to go through it (c.f. Can I tunnel other protocol through an HTTP proxy?). Using an add-on for a solution would be fine. Thanks!

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My (oldish) Thunderbird has a checkbox in the "Connection Settings" to make Thunderbird use the http proxy setting for all protocols. Did you try that?

Otherwise maybe this helps?

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For Mac & Windows there is a program called Proxifier that can do what the OS itself cannot. Note that this is a non-free commercial program and I've only tried it under Mac OSX 10.8.1 (ML). It worked flawlessly for me, though, so I guess I can call this one closed.

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