ThunderBird - Add Account

Glowhyena · Post by **Glowhyena** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:50 am

I don't know do with that?

Can help me? What name I put on it?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:07 pm

This is the mail server. You should contact your ISP and find out what it is or if it's a Hotmail, Yahoo, etc, go to their help pages on email and the server listing should be there.

Glowhyena · Post by **Glowhyena** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:40 pm

And it said \"Please enter a valid hostname\" again...

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:08 pm

what do you mean again?

the next thing it asks you is incoming and outgoing usernames.

Glowhyena · Post by **Glowhyena** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:35 pm

It said:

I put both of them on it.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:23 am

does pinging pop.mail.yahoo.com do anything?

are you setting up thunderbird for a yahoo mail account?

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:37 am

You can't pop3 Yahoo mail for free. You have to pay for that \"feature\".

Glowhyena · Post by **Glowhyena** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:42 am

fliptw wrote:does pinging pop.mail.yahoo.com do anything?

are you setting up thunderbird for a yahoo mail account?

Yes, u right. I put "pop.mail.yahoo.com" on it. I have new ThunderBird.

Glowhyena · Post by **Glowhyena** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:43 am

Top Wop wrote:You can't pop3 Yahoo mail for free. You have to pay for that "feature".

Pay!? I hate that!!

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:00 pm

I do too, thats why I moved to Gmail. They allow pop3 access for free. Its somthing that shouldn't be paid for in the first place anyway, heh!