automatic helpers which really suck!

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/14/2012 06:01 AM, François Patte wrote:
> Le 13/12/2012 08:59, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> > 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".
>
> No! I cannot: this possibility does not exist!
>

It doesn't?

thunderbird-17.0-1.fc17.x86_64  here and it does exit and has for a long time.


-- 
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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