Duncan,
maccrawj is correct. When I was with AT&T and using TB, they required
SSL but not secure authentication. It took me a while to realize that
they are two different things.
Steve
maccrawj wrote:
Could be with it disabled they are allowing non-SSL despite claiming you
must use it. In other words the checkbox is likely correct, unchecking
it is disabling SSL. SSL is where you want to be and you may find the
non-SSL ceases to work down the road given that are telling customers
they must use SSL. Current version TB is 2.0.0.21 but a quick search did
not net me any conclusive info concerning SSL bugs.
Right now I am using SSL for pop3.gmail.com, but not using Secure
Authentication. Looks like gmail doesn't support SA despite doing SSL.
The reason your mail is under docs & settings for your user is that TB
automatically creates the profile the way, as do most windows programs.
You can use the -profilemanager switch when launching TB to get it to
bring up the profile manager where you can manually choose where to
create a profile's data folder. With that created you can either import
again or you may be able to just copy over the data from the other TB
profile.
Personally I have my TB installed on drive D:'s program files tree and
the profile under a data folder on drive P:. When I backup, I simply
shutdown TB, Zip up the profile tree & archive that.
Backup wise all the email currently is in:
> C:\Documents and Settings\UID\Application
> Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\yy98ry8o.default\Mail
DHSinclair wrote:
OK. I still seem to have connectivity issues w/BellSouth/ATT
testing/working..... :(
Was able to install TB on this machine and send/rcv email. I am still
digging/tweaking all TB settings. It seems that the ISP and
Mozilla/Eudora have vastly different opinions of the "Require secure
authentication" checkbox.(!) If I uncheck this box in TB, email flows
as expected. If I tick this box in TB (as my ISP says I MUST!), TB
errors immediately on "Check Mail." I am still trying to get my head
around this........ :)
But, ATM, I am seeking insight into the basic install of TB. I was
able to get TB to install (most) of its' stuff on my d: partition.
However, somewhere else in the install script I missed a subtle ask
about "where" I want TB to "put" all the data (email). ATM, and after
I let TB scan/copy the current Eudora, I seem to have all the TB data
living at:
C:\Documents and Settings\UID\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\yy98ry8o.default\Mail
>>C:\Documents and Settings\UID\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\yy98ry8o.default\Mail\Local Folders
>>C:\Documents and Settings\UID\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\yy98ry8o.default\Mail\pop.att.yahoo.com
Can I coerce TB to put this "email data" back on d:\ with the rest of
the proggy (like Eudora)?
If not, I will get use to it I suppose....... :)
But, this now makes my normal use of SyncToy 2.0 a problem. I just do
not know who/what I tell SC20 to copy/echo from TB to my NAS for
daily/weekly backup...??? Much less whether to even use SC20 to
copy/echo the TB program files on the d:\ partition............ :(
Sorry if this question seems weird. Since this recent ISP kurfuffle,
most things normal have become a challenge.
Best,
Duncan
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