Ports close on quitting Entourage X SR1 Help, Please

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

Help, please, each time I quit Entourage, another port closes.

I installed the script "Delete Junk Folder X," created a junk folder, and
changed a number of my rules from "move to delete folder" to "move to junk
folder." I set an empty on quit schedule.

Thereafter, every time I quit Entourage X SR1 today (operating with OS
10.2.6) I got the following dialogue:
"Microsoft Entourage got an error: can't read status of every message of
folder id 244 to read"

Immediately after this dialogue appeared, my personal firewall put up
another dialogue saying that a new port (number) has closed.

I then changed the Delete Junk Folder X schedule to "manually" when I
figured that the problem might be a conflict between the delete junk folder
schedule and the empty Deleted Items Folder schedule, also set for "on
quit."

I no longer get the Entourage dialogue, but every quit of Entourage still is
followed immediately by a new firewall dialogue telling me another port has
closed.

I then did a Typical Rebuild and then an Advance Rebuild. Neither solved
the problem.

 

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

Thanks for shedding some light on this. I just found the closing of Word
was followed immediately by the closing of a port. How do I find out the
range of ports used by MS applications?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Norman,

Thanks for shedding some light on this. I just found the closing of Word
was followed immediately by the closing of a port. How do I find out the
range of ports used by MS applications?

It used to be 2222 and 3464 but I think the latest release uses a range
of random ports in the 3000 range.
Be careful if you decide to close these ports since some other
applications might use them as well (eg: iTunes is using 3689).


Corentin