On Tuesday 02 January 2007 21:06, Dave Stevens wrote: >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? > Humm, she's been using OE I believe, I've seen the emails sitting onscreen on the other box. I have the old drive connected here, so I can look it over to determine this, but I'd need to know where I'd find it on that drive. Its xp-sp2 on that drive I have here. >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 -- 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.
