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ThunderBird - Add Account

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:50 am
by Glowhyena
I don't know do with that? :? Image
Can help me? What name I put on it? :?

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:07 pm
by CDN_Merlin
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.

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:40 pm
by Glowhyena
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And it said \"Please enter a valid hostname\" again...

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:08 pm
by fliptw
what do you mean again?

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

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:35 pm
by Glowhyena
It said:
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I put both of them on it.

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:23 am
by fliptw
does pinging pop.mail.yahoo.com do anything?

are you setting up thunderbird for a yahoo mail account?

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:37 am
by Top Wop
You can't pop3 Yahoo mail for free. You have to pay for that \"feature\".

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:42 am
by Glowhyena
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.

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:43 am
by Glowhyena
Top Wop wrote:You can't pop3 Yahoo mail for free. You have to pay for that "feature".
Pay!? I hate that!!

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:00 pm
by Top Wop
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!