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.
Mine's set:
Incoming mail server 'mail.ISP.co.uk Outgoing mail srver 'smtp.ISP.co.uk
and it has a tickbox for requiring authentification
My username is my main e-mail address. the password is arranged between me and the ISP
These details will - or may - vary according to different ISPs' set-ups.
You *must* have a password the server will recognise...