Re: [ALUG] Can't cope with these new fangled GUIs - help wanted with Thunderbird IMAP/SMTP setup

On 04/08/11 20:24, Chris G wrote:

I'm trying to get Thunderbird to connect to a fairly standard E-Mail account and I'm failing miserably at the moment.

The apparent problem is that I don't seem to be able to tell Thunderbird that the user name for both IMAP and SMTP authentication is user@isbd.co.uk. I've gone into manual setup for the account and changed the user name to user@isbd.co.uk but now when I tell Thunderbird to get mail it says:-

 Enter your password for user@isbd.co.uk@mail.gridhost.co.uk

which is fairly stupid!

follow this trail. Starting at the Thunderbird main window select Edit, Preferences (new window opens) Select Advanced, then Config Editor (new window opens) Filter for hostname Edit the obvious incorrect entries Filter for username Edit the obvious incorrect entries