problem with firefox/thunderbird

catford · 17 October 2005 at 9:23PM

I downloaded f/fox and t/bird only to discover that my emails would not come thru. as i had no probs before,i removed both!! then i discovered that i couldnt get this site or ebay because I IEneeded to find the file!!what went wrong?? i thought that firefox and t/bird were foolproof!! what did i do wrong??help please i liked the look of t/bird .P S i had to do a system restore to get going again. Any suggestios please?

shopbot · 17 October 2005 at 9:36PM

Is your firewall blocking these programs? With my firewall I have to tell it to give new programs internet access. Might be with having a look at the firewall settings.

catford · 17 October 2005 at 10:23PM

I use zone alarm and it always lets me know which program or service wants access and gives me options,so i dont think its a firewall problem.

Fran · 17 October 2005 at 11:25PM

Have a double check on the Zonealarm settings, maybe Outlook Express is set as default. Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are seperate so there's no need to remove Mozilla. Did you actually set up the email accounts on Thunderbird? You have to tell it the pop & smtp settings eg. pop.virgin.net (or whatever your provider is). On Thunderbird go to Tools/Account settings.

Loobeylou · 18 October 2005 at 6:13PM

Catford, I seem to have had a similar problem to you - please see the thread headed Thunderbird V Microsoft Outlook Express.

catford · 18 October 2005 at 6:42PM

Loobeylou. I downloaded f/fox and t/bird again tonite and all seems to be o k!!t/bird imported all my settings as did f/fox and it all works.Maybe you should try again??

catford · 18 October 2005 at 6:48PM

Fran-I downloaded both again tonight and its ok this time.Do you think i can get rid of the outlook express program now i dont need it?what about I E ,could i dump that too??any opinions techies? :j