Thunderbird account set-up issue

stinky_daddy

Hi All

firstly, apologies if this is the wrong forum (mods please feel free to move it if required).

I have just downloaded and installed Thunderbird rather than regularly accessing online email accounts in the hope of reducing the overall time spent checking mails.

Anyway, I seem to have fallen @ the first hurdle!!!

I thought I would start with my orange account (my email format is:
xxx@xxx.fsnet.co.uk), however cannot get the incoming / outgoing format correct.

I have tried both pop and imap beginnings coupled with various other parts of my email address (from pop.xxx.fsnet.co.uk to mail.fsnet.co.uk) with no success:mad:

Anyone care to enlighten me as to how foolish I have been (and what the correct format should actually be)?

TIA

s_d

GingerWarrior

Just wondering if the following is of any use

http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/238695

Cheers

Toby

Dave_C_2

I found this page which may help you, in particular the post by Rod Whitely. A later post said that he had cured the problem by not checking the STMP box.

HTH, Dave

EchoLocation

Try something like this...

Account Name: mail.fsnet.co.uk
Outgoing Server: relay.fsnet.co.uk

Server Name: mail.fsnet.co.uk
Username: xxx+username (xxx being the sub-domain)

Also, it may be a different top level domain is required (.net instead of .co.uk etc)

Dave_C_2

Dave_C wrote: »

I found this page which may help you, in particular the post by Rod Whitely. A later post said that he had cured the problem by not checking the STMP box.

Oops! wrong link given in my original post, corrected in the quote.
Full link is http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=637237

Dave