On 23/02/2021 16:42, mick wrote:
(Sorry for coming late to the party) Bev
Before you attempt to re-install Tbird, I suggest you try bypassing it completely by either (best) testing a direct connection to the IMAP server, or (second best) installing an alternative lightweight mail client such as claws. (I use claws all the time).
I'm assuming that you are using IMAPS and not plain IMAP so you cannot just test the connection with telnet, you would need to use openssl. So try the following (replacing imap.host.name with whatever your ISP's host is called):
- openssl s_client -crlf -connect imap.host.name:993
[SNIP]
If any of the above fails, or takes far too long, or you get error messages, note the failure message - it will be useful in discussions with your ISP. In my test all the responses from my server were almost instantaneous.
If you don't fancy trying any of that, just install claws and configure it to connect to your ISPs server. Now connect and go to "Tools" -> "Network log" to see details of the network transactions. Again any errors shopuld be fairly obvious.
YLSNE*
* You Learn Something New Everyday.
Thanks for interesting info re openssl & claws
Steve