On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:05:42PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 04 Aug 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.ukwhich is fairly stupid!
No, that's completely correct... it's printing: username@server
Why? :-) It isn't an E-Mail address so why put the @ in there?
your username is user@isbd.co.uk and the server is mail.gridhost.co.uk.
Where is your actual problem? Did you bother trying your password?
Yes, but I have to admit using the wrong one, usign the right one makes it work. If it hadn't been going on about zelma@isbd.co.uk@mail.gridhost.co.uk I'd have been more persistent.
Thanks for pointing out what Thunderbird was trying to do.
I still think it would be better if it said:-
Enter the password for zelma@isbd.co.uk on IMAP server mail.gridhost.co.uk