On 04-Aug-11 19:24:49, 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.ukwhich is fairly stupid!
How do I get Thunderbird to allow me to set the user name to something which isn't <user>@<name of domain>? The correct mail server to use *isn't* related to the name of the domain where the user's mailbox is.
The domain for the user's mailbox is isbd.co.uk but the mail server (if you're using SSL) is mail.gridhost.co.uk.
-- Chris Green
I'm with you in having no taste for mail GUIS of the thunderbird (or Evolution, etc.) variety! I've tried them in the past on a suck-it-and-see basis, and have found them horribly tedious and obscure to set up.
That being said, I wonder if the Thunderbird response in fact reflects one of the more arcane features of the internet email addressing system. Namely, that an email address given as
user@this.dom.ain@host.that.dom.ain
forces mail delivery to user@this.dom.ain to be routed via host.that.dom.ain (and you can extend the chain), so this may just be thunderbird doing a "clever" act when it asks for your password (though I think, mind you, that even if it's being clever about the routing, it shouldn't feel that it has to tell you)!
Ted.
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