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[Tim Oppenheim <timopp AT gmail.com>]

On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:53 AM, EarthNSky wrote:

> 
> Ok amigos...after all that bragging about Thunderbird, I am now having a 
> problem.  Ever since I have been using it, I have never had it ask me 
> for my mail password. I set it up originally for it to remember the 
> password and  when I open T-bird it automatically downloads my mail and 
> when I hit send, it automatically sends it, just the way I think it 
> ought to work. For some reason, since I now can send out via gmail, as 
> with this post, the password for my bellsouth account has been lost or 
> something.  I seem to be able to receive mail fine.  It downloads fine 
> when I open the app or hit get mail.  However, after I compose a message 
> and hit send, it connects to the server, then prompts for my password.  
> I enter it, check the box for TBird to remember it, and hit enter...two 
> seconds later, it prompts for the password again.  It will do this 
> sometimes 5 or 6 times, then it will finally send, or sometimes it will 
> take 10+ times, and right now, it is just not transmitting the password 
> or remembering it at all.  The Gmail portion is operating wonderfully 
> under Thunderbird, but I need to log back on to the website and see if 
> it is storing mail like the problem Glo has.  I don't like webmail 
> because of security....not that I have that much to hide, but it is the 
> principle of the matter.  Can anyone help with this password thing?
> 
> -- 
> "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 
> nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will 
> not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world 
> is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are 
> omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the 
> problems of the human race"
> 
> ~ Calvin Coolidge 
> 
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