help with mozilla thunderbird

When I first start it up, it went to a screen that said account wizard. I typed in my email, but then it said is your incoming server a pop or an imap. I don't know which one! It also says type your incoming and outgoing server name, but I don't know what's that either! Please help!

 

You need to get the mail server settings from your ISP for their mail server.
or if webmail like Yahoo
pop.mail.yahoo.com, smtp.mail.yahoo.com

pop is incoming on port 110, smtp is outgoing on port 25.

Bad out.

 

how do i no to use pop or smtp? and still, i dont no my incoming and outgoing server name

 

Who is your mail account with?
You need both pop and smtp to work together.
The exact names depend on who your mail account is with.

 

Just to try to clarify a little,
If your email address was xblade@yahoo.com
then the settings I gave above are exactly what you want
and you would answer the first question you asked
"is your incoming server a pop or an imap?" pop

But depending on what company your email address is with it may be imap.
You need to go to their website and look for the email client settings.

 

And another question is, what was your previous email program? Outlook express?

I use T-Bird myself. Since before version 1.

Anyway. Something you could do is, within TB, select Tools, then Import. Within here, you may be lucky to import your addresses, mail, and settings from a previous program. This is what I'd recommend.

If this fails, I'd use your previous email program to find out your Pop (receive email) and SMTP (send email) addresses.

 

i did everything now, but when i type my password in it says,
"response from pop.mail.yahoo.com:error logging in. please visit mail.yahoo.com"
what should i do now?

 

For your user name you used just the first part of your email address
before the @ symbol and typed the password correctly?

The account name in Tbird can be whatever you like but the username for login on mail server
has to be exactly first part of email address.

 

i did everything and it still doesnt work!

 

Have you allowed Tbird internet access on firewall?
And not changed any security settings in Tbird yet.
On account settings, server settings page in Tbird you checked for
user name as in my post just above.

If you have the right user name and password it should work.

 

What exactly did you do?

 

You never replied to my post.

What email program did you use before? , etc.....

 

this

 

sbc yahoo dsl mail

 

In addition, who is your email provider? a.k.a ISP (internet service provider?)?

 

Thunderbird is not going to accept Yahoo Mail without an add-on:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_webmail_with_your_email_client

...and certain Yahoo accounts won't work at all.

 

See that?

 

Sorry I didn't realize what company you were with.
These are all the possible settings depending on your provider.

Your Email Address: MemberID@...
Incoming (POP) Outgoing (SMTP)

ameritech.net pop.ameritech.yahoo.com smtp.ameritech.yahoo.com
flash.net pop.flash.yahoo.com smtp.flash.yahoo.com
nvbell.net pop.nvbell.yahoo.com smtp.nvbell.yahoo.com
pacbell.net pop.pacbell.yahoo.com smtp.pacbell.yahoo.com
prodigy.net pop.prodigy.yahoo.com smtp.prodigy.yahoo.com
sbcglobal.net pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com
snet.net pop.snet.yahoo.com smtp.snet.yahoo.com
swbell.net pop.swbell.yahoo.com smtp.swbell.yahoo.com
wans.net pop.wans.yahoo.com smtp.wans.yahoo.com

 

edited

 

Pending on your email address, as in blahblah@something.com

the info after the @ symbol is what you want to follow after the following:

 

great now it only has one more problem! instead of saying error logging in, now it says invalid user/password! im sure i got it right.......

 

I.E. If your username is blah@sbcglobal.net

Then your POP server is pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com
SMTP = smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com

BTW (by the way), did you try an import via the tools option within thunderbird?

 

Hrmmm, I'm not replying fast enough.

 

o yea, how do i no if i sucessfully login?

 

it is @sbcglobal.net

 

I dont use any of the programs it said to import

 

dang, gota eat dinner

 

So you changed the server settings from what I originally said to the
pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com and smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com

 

This is from the sbc help page.

http://promo.sbcglobal.net/sbcyahoodsl/faq.html#email

How is my experience different if I do not merge my Yahoo! ID?

A. If you don't merge your Yahoo! ID, you will have to maintain two separate email accounts - yourname@yahoo.com and yourname@sbcglobal.net.

So your server settings would be either like my post from time 21:00
or pop.sbcglobal.net and smtp.sbcglobal.net

From the look of your email address i would guess the latter.
They sure make things interesting when they start merging services don't they.

 

yea i did this

 

Then it has to be these ones
pop.sbcglobal.net and smtp.sbcglobal.net

 

sorry double post

 

ok check if this is correct:
1.tools,account settings,server settings,server name: pop.sbcglobal.net, user name:xxbladexx
2.tools,account settings,outgoing server,edit,server name:stmp.sbcglobal.net, Username:xxbladexx510@sbcglobal.net
Is this correct?

 

....

 

smtp not stmp
username xxbladexx510

should work

 

yea i did that how do i no if it worked or not?

 

now it says 306 invalid user/password but it is right

 

If you open Tbird and check mail does it give you an error?
better yet send yourself an email and then give it a minute and check.
if you get the mail we are all good... finally.

let me know.

 

it didnt send! but i have a thought. In tb, in server settings and outgoing server you hav to put a username. Which one should i put a @sbcglobal.net and which one shouldn't?

 

If xxbladexx510@sbcglobal.net is your real email then xxbladexx510
should be your username.

your password should be what it always was.

If you have double checked these and it doesn't work.
the only thing that could be different would be if they want the whole email
address for a user name.

 

*sigh* still doesnt work

 

The same user name for both servers.

The server names are the pop.sbcglobal.net
and the smtp.sbcglobal.net

neither one has the @sbcglobal.net

 

no...............so now what

 

Can you PM me screenshots of your server settings?

or last possible way
put your whole email address in user name for both servers.

 

....pm?

 

and how do u get screenshots

 

PM = private message.

 

that and also how do i pm u

 

I've never used it on this forum before,
at the top on the right side click private messages.
then on the left side click send PM.
put in my user name write message then send.

to get screen shot get what you want open on desktop and press
print screen on keyboard, open paint, then paste into paint.
save as .jpeg file.

 

i press prt scr but nothing happened