On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Graham Lauder <yorick_@openoffice.org> wrote:
This one is driving me a bit batty at the moment. I've been using KMail
up till now but the addressbook has a flaky UI which is frustrating and
nonintuitive to say the least and there are one or two other issues
that have caused me problems with lost mails and such.

Good reports filtered down to me about Thunderbird and Evolution so I
installed them and set everything up and neither of them can hookup up
to my popmail accounts.
All the settings are exactly the same as the Kmail settings and Kmail
hooks in and downloads everything no problems

I use Thunderbird extensively.  I'm sure you are aware many of the account config options for Thunderbird are only available once the account is set up - things like altered ports, ssh, etc are all only configurable by right-clicking an existing account and choosing properties.

I've also found that sometimes I need to erase any remembered passwords in thunderbird and then re-type them on the next connection.

Cheers
J

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