Quoting Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Greetings all; > > Running on empty here, but I said I'd ask. This same neighbor has bought > an acer lappy, widescreen. > > She is using an email address at yahoo & has for years. I've spent an > hour already this evening trying to get thunderbird-1.5.0.9 to connect > and suck the email we can see sitting there if we log in through the web > page portal. > > We know the username, and she knows her password, and we've refreshed it > several times without effect. We have > tried 'yahoomail.om' 'mail.yahoo.com' and plain old 'yahoo.com' for the > two servers, pop for sucking, and smtp for sending. Thunderbird says its > connected regardless of the name, but doesn't suck the messages down when > told to, it connects, and slides the green bar across and back for about > 40 seconds, but nothing else happens. > > So can someone clarify for me, the names of the pop and smtp servers at > yahoo. Or how to make t-bird verbose enough to tell us whats wrong? has your friend purchased pop access? or is it just web mail? dave > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > message by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- In the world?s anti-Bush zones it is fashionable to regard him as an imperialist redneck of limited intellectual capacities. -- George Ross in Le Monde Diplomatique
