Thunderbird No Support HTTP

[Jeffrey Tooker]

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Rowe
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:02 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: RE: Thunderbird No Support HTTP


On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Jeffrey Tooker wrote:

>
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
>
>>
>> I went to the Thunderbird Wiki.  Under support it does not mention
>> HTTP.  Is there an add on package which will let TB support HTTP?  My 
>> mail service provider is HTTP.
>>
>> Jeffrey Tooker
>> Paynes Creek Ca.
>> 
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> What mail service are you using? Generally HTTP is only going to be 
> for
> web-mail but many services also provide IMAP or POP3 access as well.
>
> -jayson>>>
>
> Jayson:
>
> It is an MSN email address.  It also ends up in Hotmail.  So I believe 
> that is the reason for the HTTP.  Right now I am so hacked at MSN I 
> will leave for Thunderbird and change my email address to the one 
> provided by my ISP. This whole MSN thing has been getting more 
> unfriendly for some time.  Now is a good a time to go as any.  Thanks 
> to all for the help.
>
> Jeffrey Tooker
> Paynes Creek Ca.
>
Jayson wrote:
Sorry to hear of your troubles with MSN. You may want to give GMail a try. 
I find it a little more flexible than an ISP provided email service, in 
that you won't have to get a new email address if you change ISP's and 
GMail gives you WAY more storage than most ISPs. Plus you have the 
flexability to use Webmail, POP3 or IMAP. I personally use IMAP so that I 
can access my mail with actuall mail clients (Alpine in my case) in 
various locations without having to use the webmail interface (which I 
hate).

-jayson>>>


Jayson:

It sounds like good advice.  However I have a small problem in that I have
several years of email files that I am trying to maintain.  Fortunatly they
have been migrated over to Thunderbird.  I can work from there with my new
email address.  I am retired here and here I will stay untill health drives
me into town which is 30 mi down in the valley.  Hopefully I will be here
many years.  Is there a way in TB to export my existing email files to a
folder in the documents portion of my computer, rather than leaving them in
TB?  I see that I am going to have to rethink my email archive.

Jeffrey Tooker
Paynes Creek Ca.