No email in 11.10

[Donkey Hottie]

17.10.2011 17:09, Aart Koelewijn kirjoitti:
> Hello,
> 
> I just upgraded my laptop (luckily only my laptop) to 11.10. Then I found 
> it does not have Evolution any more as an email client. So I tried 
> Thunderbird. But Thunderbird has some configuration wizard that makes it 
> impossible for me to configure it in such a way that I can receive and 
> send emails.
> 
> In short, I have my own email domain. The mailserver for that is run on 
> my desktop. My laptop gets its email with fetchmail from my desktop and 
> sends it through my desktop using a vpn-tunnel. For this I run exim on 
> both my desktop and laptop.
> 
> I can't find a way to configure Thunderbird to work in this way. It only 
> wants to make a pop or imap connection to my provider, but there I have a 
> bSMTP connection, and the email is divided over the different users by 
> the email-server on my desktop.
> 
> So I either want evolution back, or a way to configure Thunderbird to run 
> in the old fashioned unix way with a local mailserver and a spool file. 
> How can I reach those goals?
> 
> Aart
> 
> 

You could try to enter email "mynick at desktop" to the Thunderbird Wizard.
Once it finds the connection and is happy, you can the edit the Account
seetting for that, and fix the email address, and other settings.

It is the over-clever wizard that is the problem in TB... But you can
cheat some with it ;)





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