j.,
I have printed your reply and will now dig into my LAN and client setups. Thank you for "your" basic points. Too bad I was NOT given/SAW these options the 1st time I put TB on this machine.......It was a test, after all, and, I thought I was doing right. IT now seems I made a very subtle mistake. This version of TB is for test only. I put it HERE only to prove/screw my own understanding of WHAT I was told to DO.

More testing/tweaking to come. Odd also that Eudora will not play still even though I have unchecked "Requires Authentication" in the top 5 blocks of OPTIONS. Well, my version of Eudora is very old; if I read Qualcomm's lexicon properly, I am trying to still use a W98 version of the basic code........ :)

I will start with creating a d:\Program Files directory. I can miss all the recent interim email on TB for now. I think I understand your backup calls for TB, but need to settle and re-read your share a few more times.

Damn, I hate being this slow........... :(
IT does happen.
Best,
Duncan


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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