automatic helpers which really suck!

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/13/2012 03:37 PM, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I installed f-17 and wanted to set my mail with thunderbird.
>
> New account, name, mail address, smtp.... *immediately* thunderbird
> helper goes on the web to check my email server and don't find it! Why?
> I really don't know: this mail address and server has been in service
> for years now (and I'm using it to send this mail).... I can ping it, I
> can dig it...
>
> And now, I am stuck: I cannot have my mail because thunderbird try to
> help me, as if I was so stupid that I cannot know my own email address!
>
> I really don't understand what is the goal of this kind of help, even if
> I make a mistake while I give my emeil server address, doomsday won't come!
>
> The result is: I cannot configure my mail because someone has thought
> that this automatic check will help people. Stupid!

Not sure "exactly" the problem you are facing......   But.....

You can select "File--->New--->Existing Mail Account".
Enter the information on the first screen and hit "continue".  Tbird will fail to find the settings since, for whatever reason, it isn't in their database or common names aren't used by the ISP.  e.g. imap.isp.com, etc.

Then just enter the server names or IP address and hit retest.  That is what I did for my accounts which failed the auto-config.

-- 
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

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