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
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?
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.
That's not what it's doing.
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.
Probably if you're not using ssl too. But then that would be silly.