Here's a link to the Mozillazine Files http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_accounts_in_Thunderbird_for_popular_email_providers
Don't your will need to enter your full email address when setting up account. You will also the Webmail and Yahoo extensions Eugene On Jan 1, 10:00 pm, "John Clinard" <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > > I downloaded email from AOL using Outlook Express, which I have used for > several years with a download limit that always works. All good things must > come to an end. It failed on AOL. I'm satisfied that AOL is the culprit > when Tbird, Eudora, and OE all fail. But the effort wasn't for naught > because I found this group, which is what I needed in the first place. I > turned to AOL because I couldn't get Webmail to work with Yahoo. Now I am > going back to that struggle. Can you recommend a tutorial for configuring > Yahoo Webmail in Tbird? Thanks. > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Clifton" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:41 AM > Subject: Re: Disk Space Account Setting > > As Alan says, we need more information. > I did experiment with my Yahoo account using web mail extensions. A > message with a 108KB attachment was not downloaded when the default TB > setting of "do not download larger than 50KB" was selected. When the > setting was unselected, the message was downloaded at the next scheduled > mail check. For Yahoo web mail accounts and "real" POP accounts the > download limit setting works. > It may not work with all web mail systems however. For this download > limit setting to work, Thunderbird needs to receive information about > the mail size from the server before the message is downloaded. Regular > POP mail servers will follow the POP3 mail protocol and provide this > information. There is no such standard for web mail. Web mail providers > can present your mail on the web page in any way that they like, so long > as it can be read by a web browser. This is why a different web mail > extension is needed for each system, Hotmail is not the same as Yahoo, > which also differs from Google and so on....... If the web page on which > your web mail provider displays your incoming mail doesn't present mail > size information in a manner that the web mail extension can readily > extract and pass on to TB, then the extension cannot tell TB in advance > how big the mail is and TB cannot apply any download limit. > > alanrf wrote: > > We do not have much to go on in your problem description. > > > This forum is for the use of the Webmail add-ons for Thunderbird. > > > Are you using Thunderbird? Which version? > > > Are you using the Webmail add-ons for Thunderbird? > > > If so then which Web service are you using ... Hotmail perhaps? > > > On Dec 27, 9:02 pm, "John Clinard" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I'm presently using Outlook Express, but I would like very much to switch > to Thunderbird; however, I have a problem that is preventing that. I use > dialup and I need to be able to limit the size of incoming emails. In the > past, I have downloaded emails so big that my connection timed out and that > caused much trouble before I got it corrected. To avoid this problem with > Tbird, I'm trying to use the 'disk space' account setting which says "Do not > download messages larger than XXX KB". I attached a 200KB file to an email > and sent it to myself. Then I set XXX to 100 KB, but Tbird downloaded the > email anyway. This feature works in OE which is the reason I still use it. > Assuming this feature works as presented in Tbird, what am I doing wrong? > Can anyone offer an alternative method of limiting downloaded email size in > Tbird? Thanks for your help. > > >> John > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en. > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en.
