Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[ Mr . Ed  via support-seamonkey]

  
  
On 5/2/2020 8:25 PM, Frog wrote:

On
  5/2/2020 7:51 PM,  Mr. Ed  wrote:
  
  On 5/2/2020 5:24 PM, Frog wrote:


{Much text deleted}



  
  ---I believe that I can (with help from
  knowledgeable/technical savvy individuals on this newsgroup) 
  make adjustments to my original usern...@verizon.net account
  to make it compatible with my computer needs.  I believe that
  it is possible to make modifications to this account that will
  once again give me access to all of my needs
  
  
  Frog
  
  
  P.S.  I want everyone who has provided help to me in this
  situation to
  
    know how much I appreciate your efforts.  Your
  individual
  
    contributions have meant more to me than you can ever
  know.
  


As one who has been a Verizon user before the AOL takeover
here's my one cent

I believe at the takeover time all accounts were to go to
u...@aol.com unless you decided to stay with u...@verizon.net
amd IF you changed to the AOL account you could never go back to
your Verizon.net.  That's why I'm still u...@verizon.net


-- 
"This is America!  You can't make a horse

  testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed


  
  I also retained my u...@verizon.net address.
  
  
  All was working without any problems on my computer (SeaMonkey
  software) until very recently. I'm not sure if my computer was the
  cause of my problems or whether Verizon or AOL had a hand in
  causing my problems...whatever the cause, I now have a work around
  that involves three software packages (Thunderbird, AOL, and
  SeaMonkey) to do what I was doing on SeaMonkey alone.  Any
  settings in your account or profile (that you are willing to share
  with me) may help me to return to some sanity on my computer.  No,
  I am not seeking any personal information, such as usernames or
  passwords, in my seeking help.
  
  
  Please note that I had a 6.5 hour virus/malware scan of my
  computer and no problems were found.  I then got in touch with my
  virus scan people for help and they had me send the results of my
  scan to them for further review...the review did not turn up any
  problems.  Thus, I don't think the problem that put me in this
  mess was my computer...I believe it had something to do with
  either Verizon or AOL.
  
  
  It was good to hear from you and thanks for letting me know that I
  was not alone when I made the decision to keep my Verizon email
  address.
  
  
  Frog
  
  
  


See attached for POP and SMTP settings
  that I am using.  Just replace "user" with your Verizon user ID.
  (no quotes).

-- 
"This is America!  You can't make a horse
 testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed
  

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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 5/4/2020 5:52 AM, Daniel wrote:

Frog wrote on 4/05/2020 10:05 AM:

On 4/29/2020 7:41 PM, Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL 
email account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can 
only access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support 
group is accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every 
combination of settings that I have read about and nothing makes a 
connection to AOL via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me 
simple directions for how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have 
my AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


I'm almost happy at the moment...I can receive my email messages on 
SeaMonkey.  I still don't know what made this happen...unless it was a 
mistake I made while looking at "Preferences" in SeaMonkey.  I found 
under "Preferences" three squares...one with Mail, another with News, 
and the third with Feed printed on them.  Two of these boxes (Mail and 
Feeds) were grayed out and only News had a white background.  I said 
to myself...voila, I need to find a way to make Mail have a 
background. I never found a way to make the Mail block turn white, so 
I started down a very dangerous path of experimenting.  I decided to 
click the News block and then I got a message asking if I was sure I 
wanted to take this action...after some hard thinking, I decided to 
say yes.  I was then shaking like a leaf in the wind but ultimately 
decided to attempt to download my (AOL) mail on SeaMonkey...would you 
believe my messages started to download immediately after clicking the 
download button.


I next decided to check my newsgroup messages...they were there and 
new messages were downloaded.  One problem here that was not present 
in my mail arena is the fact that I still can't open my news group 
messages...I only see message headings and can't open the messages to 
see the message text.  Without seeing the message text I don't know 
what the message is all about and I need the message to be open in 
order to send a response to that message.  I will continue to look for 
a fix for this problem.  (((Question: Is it better for me to open a 
new item in the newsgroup for this problem?)))


Needless to say I am a happy person right now, and I can send/receive 
email messages via SeaMonkey...able to receive newsgroup traffic on 
SeaMonkey but not able to open the message or respond to the message 
on SeaMonkey...and I can continue to visit web pages on SeaMonkey. All 
of this would not have been possible without the help all of you sent 
my way...you are all to be commended for what you do to help other 
people. My thanks for you help is beyond words to express.


Frog


Frog, I don't know if my contribution will fix your situation ... but 
you never know 


At one stage, SeaMonkey was set up so that, once you had set up an 
e-mail account, SeaMonkey would reason that any other account you set up 
would HAVE TO BE a News account, so removed the possibility of setting 
up another e-mail account, hence your not being able to, i.e. E-mail 
account being greyed out!! (I don't know why you saw 'Feed' greyed out!!)


What you just stated makes sense to me in light of what I have 
encountered during this thread and what I have to look forward to in the 
coming days.  Recapping a little here, I have two accounts (one titled 
username@verizon and another AOL Account).  I believe the one titled 
usern...@verizzon.net is the one I am actually using to access my AOL 
mail on SeaMonkey.  The second one I think is a dud and probably should 
be deleted...now I have to make sure of which one I am actually using 
before deleting anything.


I can now see the subject line and message text of my AOL email messages 
on SeaMonkey.  I can also access - see the subject lines of the messages 
of this newsgroup on SeMonkey.  I cannot, however, open or respond to a 
newsgroup message on SeaMunkey.  My attempts to open a message results 
in me seeing this message:


This link needs to be opened with an application.
Send to:
 Pick an app
Choose other Application Choose...

___Remember my choice for news links.

 CancelOpen link

I have never been able to identify an application that will open the 
messages on this newsgroup using SeaMonkey. My work around for this lack 
of access to newsgroup messages is to open Thunderbird and all of my 
messages become readable.


To change this situation, i.e. to allow you to set up a new E-mail 
account, you need to get into your set-up and make a change 


FYI, I am afraid to start deleting an account because I am informed that 
doing so will delete all of my historical messages.  

Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Daniel]

Frog wrote on 4/05/2020 10:05 AM:

On 4/29/2020 7:41 PM, Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email 
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only 
access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is 
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of 
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL 
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for 
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my 
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


I'm almost happy at the moment...I can receive my email messages on 
SeaMonkey.  I still don't know what made this happen...unless it was a 
mistake I made while looking at "Preferences" in SeaMonkey.  I found 
under "Preferences" three squares...one with Mail, another with News, 
and the third with Feed printed on them.  Two of these boxes (Mail and 
Feeds) were grayed out and only News had a white background.  I said to 
myself...voila, I need to find a way to make Mail have a background. I 
never found a way to make the Mail block turn white, so I started down a 
very dangerous path of experimenting.  I decided to click the News block 
and then I got a message asking if I was sure I wanted to take this 
action...after some hard thinking, I decided to say yes.  I was then 
shaking like a leaf in the wind but ultimately decided to attempt to 
download my (AOL) mail on SeaMonkey...would you believe my messages 
started to download immediately after clicking the download button.


I next decided to check my newsgroup messages...they were there and new 
messages were downloaded.  One problem here that was not present in my 
mail arena is the fact that I still can't open my news group 
messages...I only see message headings and can't open the messages to 
see the message text.  Without seeing the message text I don't know what 
the message is all about and I need the message to be open in order to 
send a response to that message.  I will continue to look for a fix for 
this problem.  (((Question: Is it better for me to open a new item in 
the newsgroup for this problem?)))


Needless to say I am a happy person right now, and I can send/receive 
email messages via SeaMonkey...able to receive newsgroup traffic on 
SeaMonkey but not able to open the message or respond to the message on 
SeaMonkey...and I can continue to visit web pages on SeaMonkey. All of 
this would not have been possible without the help all of you sent my 
way...you are all to be commended for what you do to help other people. 
My thanks for you help is beyond words to express.


Frog


Frog, I don't know if my contribution will fix your situation ... but 
you never know 


At one stage, SeaMonkey was set up so that, once you had set up an 
e-mail account, SeaMonkey would reason that any other account you set up 
would HAVE TO BE a News account, so removed the possibility of setting 
up another e-mail account, hence your not being able to, i.e. E-mail 
account being greyed out!! (I don't know why you saw 'Feed' greyed out!!)


To change this situation, i.e. to allow you to set up a new E-mail 
account, you need to get into your set-up and make a change 


Hmm! I must be getting old!! I used to be able to give instructions for 
reverting to being able to set up Mail account  but, alas, now I 
cannot recall the preference that needs to be reset ... or, do I, sort 
of, recall someone here suggesting this functionality might have been 
removed??


It maybe now, that you have set your account up as a News account, your 
SeaMonkey has gone and gotten your mail off of the Server, BUT is then 
trying to operate as a News reader such that when you click on a 
Subject:, your SeaMonkey is trying to re-read the message from the 
Server  but the message has already been downloaded onto your 
Computer, so is not on the Server for it to read.


--
Daniel

Win7 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) 
Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.5 Build identifier: 20190609032134


Linux User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) 
Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623

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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 4/29/2020 7:41 PM, Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email 
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only access 
web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is 
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of 
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL 
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for 
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my 
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


I'm almost happy at the moment...I can receive my email messages on 
SeaMonkey.  I still don't know what made this happen...unless it was a 
mistake I made while looking at "Preferences" in SeaMonkey.  I found 
under "Preferences" three squares...one with Mail, another with News, 
and the third with Feed printed on them.  Two of these boxes (Mail and 
Feeds) were grayed out and only News had a white background.  I said to 
myself...voila, I need to find a way to make Mail have a background. I 
never found a way to make the Mail block turn white, so I started down a 
very dangerous path of experimenting.  I decided to click the News block 
and then I got a message asking if I was sure I wanted to take this 
action...after some hard thinking, I decided to say yes.  I was then 
shaking like a leaf in the wind but ultimately decided to attempt to 
download my (AOL) mail on SeaMonkey...would you believe my messages 
started to download immediately after clicking the download button.


I next decided to check my newsgroup messages...they were there and new 
messages were downloaded.  One problem here that was not present in my 
mail arena is the fact that I still can't open my news group 
messages...I only see message headings and can't open the messages to 
see the message text.  Without seeing the message text I don't know what 
the message is all about and I need the message to be open in order to 
send a response to that message.  I will continue to look for a fix for 
this problem.  (((Question: Is it better for me to open a new item in 
the newsgroup for this problem?)))


Needless to say I am a happy person right now, and I can send/receive 
email messages via SeaMonkey...able to receive newsgroup traffic on 
SeaMonkey but not able to open the message or respond to the message on 
SeaMonkey...and I can continue to visit web pages on SeaMonkey. All of 
this would not have been possible without the help all of you sent my 
way...you are all to be commended for what you do to help other people. 
My thanks for you help is beyond words to express.


Frog


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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[WaltS48]

Frog wrote:

On 5/3/2020 11:31 AM,  Mr. Ed  wrote:

On 5/2/2020 8:25 PM, Frog wrote:

On 5/2/2020 7:51 PM,  Mr. Ed  wrote:

On 5/2/2020 5:24 PM, Frog wrote:

{Much text deleted}



---I believe that I can (with help from knowledgeable/technical 
savvy individuals on this newsgroup) make adjustments to my 
original usern...@verizon.net account to make it compatible with my 
computer needs.  I believe that it is possible to make 
modifications to this account that will once again give me access 
to all of my needs


Frog

P.S.  I want everyone who has provided help to me in this situation to
  know how much I appreciate your efforts.  Your individual
  contributions have meant more to me than you can ever know.


As one who has been a Verizon user before the AOL takeover here's my 
one cent
I believe at the takeover time all accounts were to go to 
u...@aol.com unless you decided to stay with u...@verizon.net amd IF 
you changed to the AOL account you could never go back to your 
Verizon.net.  That's why I'm still u...@verizon.net


--
"This is America!  You can't make a horse
  testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed


I also retained my u...@verizon.net address.

All was working without any problems on my computer (SeaMonkey 
software) until very recently. I'm not sure if my computer was the 
cause of my problems or whether Verizon or AOL had a hand in causing 
my problems...whatever the cause, I now have a work around that 
involves three software packages (Thunderbird, AOL, and SeaMonkey) to 
do what I was doing on SeaMonkey alone.  Any settings in your account 
or profile (that you are willing to share with me) may help me to 
return to some sanity on my computer.  No, I am not seeking any 
personal information, such as usernames or passwords, in my seeking 
help.


Please note that I had a 6.5 hour virus/malware scan of my computer 
and no problems were found.  I then got in touch with my virus scan 
people for help and they had me send the results of my scan to them 
for further review...the review did not turn up any problems.  Thus, 
I don't think the problem that put me in this mess was my 
computer...I believe it had something to do with either Verizon or AOL.


It was good to hear from you and thanks for letting me know that I 
was not alone when I made the decision to keep my Verizon email address.


Frog




See attached for POP and SMTP settings that I am using.  Just replace 
"user" with your Verizon user ID. (no quotes).


--
"This is America!  You can't make a horse
  testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed



Thanks Mr. ED for the settings you sent my way.  I had only one change 
to make to my settings...


SNPT...Server Name was smtp.aol.com vs smpt.verizon.net

After making the fix, I then attempted to check my mail and I received 
an error message as follows:


Error with account usern...@verizon.net
The account usern...@verizon.net is being processed.  Please wait until 
processing is complete to get messages.

     OK

This message never goes away until I click OK.  No messages appear in my 
inbox


Do you have any thoughts error message?

Frog


smtp.verizon.net is the server name for sending mail.

pop.verizon.net is the server for receiving mail.

I just setup my Verizon account in SeaMonkey 2.52.2.

Once I entered the email address, server name (pop.verizon.net) and port 
number (995) I had to open the accounts settings and change the accounts 
security settings.


Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Normal password.

Then I attempted to get messages, was asked for my password, entered it 
into the dialog window, clicked "Next" and received my emails.


Hope that helps.
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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[ Mr . Ed  via support-seamonkey]

  
  
On 5/3/2020 2:34 PM, Frog wrote:

On
  5/3/2020 11:31 AM,  Mr. Ed  wrote:
  
  On 5/2/2020 8:25 PM, Frog wrote:

On 5/2/2020 7:51 PM,  Mr. Ed  wrote:
  
  On 5/2/2020 5:24 PM, Frog wrote:


{Much text deleted}



  
  ---I believe that I can (with help from
  knowledgeable/technical savvy individuals on this
  newsgroup) make adjustments to my original
  usern...@verizon.net account to make it compatible with my
  computer needs.  I believe that it is possible to make
  modifications to this account that will once again give me
  access to all of my needs
  
  
  Frog
  
  
  P.S.  I want everyone who has provided help to me in this
  situation to
  
    know how much I appreciate your efforts.  Your
  individual
  
    contributions have meant more to me than you can
  ever know.
  


As one who has been a Verizon user before the AOL takeover
here's my one cent

I believe at the takeover time all accounts were to go to
u...@aol.com unless you decided to stay with
u...@verizon.net amd IF you changed to the AOL account you
could never go back to your Verizon.net.  That's why I'm
still u...@verizon.net


-- 
"This is America!  You can't make a horse

  testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed


  
  I also retained my u...@verizon.net address.
  
  
  All was working without any problems on my computer (SeaMonkey
  software) until very recently. I'm not sure if my computer was
  the cause of my problems or whether Verizon or AOL had a hand
  in causing my problems...whatever the cause, I now have a work
  around that involves three software packages (Thunderbird,
  AOL, and SeaMonkey) to do what I was doing on SeaMonkey
  alone.  Any settings in your account or profile (that you are
  willing to share with me) may help me to return to some sanity
  on my computer.  No, I am not seeking any personal
  information, such as usernames or passwords, in my seeking
  help.
  
  
  Please note that I had a 6.5 hour virus/malware scan of my
  computer and no problems were found.  I then got in touch with
  my virus scan people for help and they had me send the results
  of my scan to them for further review...the review did not
  turn up any problems.  Thus, I don't think the problem that
  put me in this mess was my computer...I believe it had
  something to do with either Verizon or AOL.
  
  
  It was good to hear from you and thanks for letting me know
  that I was not alone when I made the decision to keep my
  Verizon email address.
  
  
  Frog
  
  
  


See attached for POP and SMTP settings that I am using.  Just
replace "user" with your Verizon user ID. (no quotes).


-- 
"This is America!  You can't make a horse

  testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed


  
  
  Thanks Mr. ED for the settings you sent my way.  I had only one
  change to make to my settings...
  
  
  SNPT...Server Name was smtp.aol.com vs smpt.verizon.net
  
  
  After making the fix, I then attempted to check my mail and I
  received an error message as follows:
  
  
  Error with account usern...@verizon.net
  
  The account usern...@verizon.net is being processed.  Please wait
  until processing is complete to get messages.
  
      OK
  
  
  This message never goes away until I click OK.  No messages appear
  in my inbox
  
  
  Do you have any thoughts error message?
  
  
  Frog
  

No, can't think of anything else.  I've
  had no problems with the Verizon address with any of my mail
  programs using what I showed you.
  At the changeover time I just ignored all the messges about
  switching address to AOL.  I have 4 other accounts with Verizon
  using the same setups as shown in previous post  Perhaps someone
  will come up with the solution.  Good luck.--
"This is America!  You can't make a horse
 testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed
  

Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 5/3/2020 11:31 AM,  Mr. Ed  wrote:

On 5/2/2020 8:25 PM, Frog wrote:

On 5/2/2020 7:51 PM,  Mr. Ed  wrote:

On 5/2/2020 5:24 PM, Frog wrote:

{Much text deleted}



---I believe that I can (with help from knowledgeable/technical 
savvy individuals on this newsgroup) make adjustments to my original 
usern...@verizon.net account to make it compatible with my computer 
needs.  I believe that it is possible to make modifications to this 
account that will once again give me access to all of my needs


Frog

P.S.  I want everyone who has provided help to me in this situation to
  know how much I appreciate your efforts.  Your individual
  contributions have meant more to me than you can ever know.


As one who has been a Verizon user before the AOL takeover here's my 
one cent
I believe at the takeover time all accounts were to go to 
u...@aol.com unless you decided to stay with u...@verizon.net amd IF 
you changed to the AOL account you could never go back to your 
Verizon.net.  That's why I'm still u...@verizon.net


--
"This is America!  You can't make a horse
  testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed


I also retained my u...@verizon.net address.

All was working without any problems on my computer (SeaMonkey 
software) until very recently. I'm not sure if my computer was the 
cause of my problems or whether Verizon or AOL had a hand in causing 
my problems...whatever the cause, I now have a work around that 
involves three software packages (Thunderbird, AOL, and SeaMonkey) to 
do what I was doing on SeaMonkey alone.  Any settings in your account 
or profile (that you are willing to share with me) may help me to 
return to some sanity on my computer.  No, I am not seeking any 
personal information, such as usernames or passwords, in my seeking help.


Please note that I had a 6.5 hour virus/malware scan of my computer 
and no problems were found.  I then got in touch with my virus scan 
people for help and they had me send the results of my scan to them 
for further review...the review did not turn up any problems.  Thus, I 
don't think the problem that put me in this mess was my computer...I 
believe it had something to do with either Verizon or AOL.


It was good to hear from you and thanks for letting me know that I was 
not alone when I made the decision to keep my Verizon email address.


Frog




See attached for POP and SMTP settings that I am using.  Just replace 
"user" with your Verizon user ID. (no quotes).


--
"This is America!  You can't make a horse
  testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed



Thanks Mr. ED for the settings you sent my way.  I had only one change 
to make to my settings...


SNPT...Server Name was smtp.aol.com vs smpt.verizon.net

After making the fix, I then attempted to check my mail and I received 
an error message as follows:


Error with account usern...@verizon.net
The account usern...@verizon.net is being processed.  Please wait until 
processing is complete to get messages.

OK

This message never goes away until I click OK.  No messages appear in my 
inbox


Do you have any thoughts error message?

Frog
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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 5/2/2020 7:51 PM,  Mr. Ed  wrote:

On 5/2/2020 5:24 PM, Frog wrote:

{Much text deleted}



---I believe that I can (with help from knowledgeable/technical savvy 
individuals on this newsgroup)  make adjustments to my original 
usern...@verizon.net account to make it compatible with my computer 
needs.  I believe that it is possible to make modifications to this 
account that will once again give me access to all of my needs


Frog

P.S.  I want everyone who has provided help to me in this situation to
  know how much I appreciate your efforts.  Your individual
  contributions have meant more to me than you can ever know.


As one who has been a Verizon user before the AOL takeover here's my one 
cent
I believe at the takeover time all accounts were to go to u...@aol.com 
unless you decided to stay with u...@verizon.net amd IF you changed to 
the AOL account you could never go back to your Verizon.net.  That's why 
I'm still u...@verizon.net


--
"This is America!  You can't make a horse
  testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed


I also retained my u...@verizon.net address.

All was working without any problems on my computer (SeaMonkey software) 
until very recently. I'm not sure if my computer was the cause of my 
problems or whether Verizon or AOL had a hand in causing my 
problems...whatever the cause, I now have a work around that involves 
three software packages (Thunderbird, AOL, and SeaMonkey) to do what I 
was doing on SeaMonkey alone.  Any settings in your account or profile 
(that you are willing to share with me) may help me to return to some 
sanity on my computer.  No, I am not seeking any personal information, 
such as usernames or passwords, in my seeking help.


Please note that I had a 6.5 hour virus/malware scan of my computer and 
no problems were found.  I then got in touch with my virus scan people 
for help and they had me send the results of my scan to them for further 
review...the review did not turn up any problems.  Thus, I don't think 
the problem that put me in this mess was my computer...I believe it had 
something to do with either Verizon or AOL.


It was good to hear from you and thanks for letting me know that I was 
not alone when I made the decision to keep my Verizon email address.


Frog


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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[ Mr . Ed  via support-seamonkey]

  
  
On 5/2/2020 5:24 PM, Frog wrote:


  {Much text deleted}
  


  ---I believe that I can (with help from knowledgeable/technical
  savvy individuals on this newsgroup)  make adjustments to my
  original usern...@verizon.net account to make it compatible with
  my computer needs.  I believe that it is possible to make
  modifications to this account that will once again give me access
  to all of my needs
  
  
  Frog
  
  
  P.S.  I want everyone who has provided help to me in this
  situation to
  
    know how much I appreciate your efforts.  Your individual
  
    contributions have meant more to me than you can ever know.
  


As one who has been a Verizon user before the AOL takeover here's my
one cent 
I believe at the takeover time all accounts were to go to
u...@aol.com unless you decided to stay with  u...@verizon.net amd
IF you changed to the AOL account you could never go back to your
Verizon.net.  That's why I'm still u...@verizon.net

-- 
"This is America!  You can't make a horse
 testify against himself!"  -Mister Ed
  

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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 5/2/2020 10:59 AM, NFN Smith wrote:

Daniel wrote:


I am starting to wonder if I should delete both of the accounts I 
have on SeaMonkey and start all over with one new account.  I make 
this comment based on selecting SeaMonkey to provide everything I 
need...Mail - News - Feeds.


Be aware, Frog, that if you delete both your accounts on SeaMonkey, 
you will be deleting all the e-mails you have sent and received on 
those two accounts!


Least that's what happened to me! ;-(



I haven't been following this thread closely, but at this point, a 
couple of thoughts...


Something that Frog might want to do is consider doing some playing in a 
different user profile, rather than his current profile.  That way, 
there's more capacity to experiment, without risking damage to existing 
setups or data.


One way to do that would be to create a new profile in Seamonkey, and 
try setting up a new connection there. The idea is to figure out the 
mechanics of what works or not, where you're not trying to work around 
your existing data.  Once you get that working, you can replicate those 
settings in your normal profile.


Going a step further, consider the possibility of a temporary install of 
Thunderbird -- its account setup wizard works pretty well (more 
extensive than Seamonkey), and I've found that for most providers, all 
it takes to get a workable connection is specifying your email address, 
password and whether you want POP or IMAP, and the wizard is pretty good 
about figuring out the rest of the settings. There are exceptions, 
especially if a provider requires a different password for external 
clients, as a way of doing a form of multi-factor authentication, but 
absent that, the setup wizard should be able to do most of the work in 
figuring things out. As with the suggestion above, once you have a 
working connection, you can tweak your configs in Seamonkey to match.


However, it is possible that Verizon/AOL is doing something like 
alternate password, and if so, the only source of information of how to 
do your configs will be information that you get directly from them.  My 
own mail provider does this, and when I was setting up my phone to be 
able to check my mail, I found that they required me to do a one-time 
configuration of a separate password that's used in a mail client 
(although somehow, they seem to have grandfathered my long-time 
connection in Seamonkey, where I've never had to adjust that.)


Item of caution: if you're working with a POP connections on a test 
setup, before you commit to downloading mail from a server, I do 
encourage you to check the advanced settings, to adjust the mail 
retention preferences.  In Seamonkey, the default setting is to delete 
mail from the server after it's downloaded, and if you're using a test 
configuration, it's a good idea to set it to not delete from the server, 
so that the test connection isn't grabbing mail that you want to go into 
your normal mail.


Another consideration: if you're changing server names, it's generally 
better to create a new account anyway, and not try to tinker with the 
name in an existing account.  I have done that in the past, even in 
changing providers, but the result is that you get a lot of messiness at 
folder and file level within your user profile, and it's worse when you 
have multiple accounts.  Some of the naming includes server names when 
created, and if you're digging at that level, it can be really confusing 
to be seeing old names that don't correspond with current usage.  With 
this in mind, having a new account in place is probably a good idea.


As for making sure that you don't lose any of your mail archives, I 
recommend either (or both) of the following:


1) Before you do any additional tinkering, make sure you get a backup of 
your existing profile.  In Windows, you want to get the entire contents 
of %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey .  The AppData folder is normally hidden, 
where you can't find it in the Windows explorer, but if you put that 
path (with the environment variable) in the Explorer's address bar, it's 
no problem to find.  And depending on what backup tool you use, some 
allow you to use that construct in what you're including in your 
backups.  For me, if I'm doing a data backup, besides all the normal 
libraries in Windows, I include that designation, so that I get all my 
Seamonkey data, and I do the same with my data for Firefox and 
Thunderbird (%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox and %APPDATA%\Thunderbird, 
respectively -- Thunderbird's designation is slightly different, for 
some reason).


Even if you don't do this for your regular backups, getting a copy of 
your Seamonkey data *somewhere* is a really good idea, even if you 
simply copy %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey to your Documents library.


2) If you anticipate the possibility of deleting your existing POP 
account, copy all you mail data into Local Folders, where it can stay, 
even if the account gets deleted. There's a 

Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[NFN Smith]

Daniel wrote:


I am starting to wonder if I should delete both of the accounts I have 
on SeaMonkey and start all over with one new account.  I make this 
comment based on selecting SeaMonkey to provide everything I 
need...Mail - News - Feeds.


Be aware, Frog, that if you delete both your accounts on SeaMonkey, you 
will be deleting all the e-mails you have sent and received on those two 
accounts!


Least that's what happened to me! ;-(



I haven't been following this thread closely, but at this point, a 
couple of thoughts...


Something that Frog might want to do is consider doing some playing in a 
different user profile, rather than his current profile.  That way, 
there's more capacity to experiment, without risking damage to existing 
setups or data.


One way to do that would be to create a new profile in Seamonkey, and 
try setting up a new connection there. The idea is to figure out the 
mechanics of what works or not, where you're not trying to work around 
your existing data.  Once you get that working, you can replicate those 
settings in your normal profile.


Going a step further, consider the possibility of a temporary install of 
Thunderbird -- its account setup wizard works pretty well (more 
extensive than Seamonkey), and I've found that for most providers, all 
it takes to get a workable connection is specifying your email address, 
password and whether you want POP or IMAP, and the wizard is pretty good 
about figuring out the rest of the settings. There are exceptions, 
especially if a provider requires a different password for external 
clients, as a way of doing a form of multi-factor authentication, but 
absent that, the setup wizard should be able to do most of the work in 
figuring things out. As with the suggestion above, once you have a 
working connection, you can tweak your configs in Seamonkey to match.


However, it is possible that Verizon/AOL is doing something like 
alternate password, and if so, the only source of information of how to 
do your configs will be information that you get directly from them.  My 
own mail provider does this, and when I was setting up my phone to be 
able to check my mail, I found that they required me to do a one-time 
configuration of a separate password that's used in a mail client 
(although somehow, they seem to have grandfathered my long-time 
connection in Seamonkey, where I've never had to adjust that.)


Item of caution: if you're working with a POP connections on a test 
setup, before you commit to downloading mail from a server, I do 
encourage you to check the advanced settings, to adjust the mail 
retention preferences.  In Seamonkey, the default setting is to delete 
mail from the server after it's downloaded, and if you're using a test 
configuration, it's a good idea to set it to not delete from the server, 
so that the test connection isn't grabbing mail that you want to go into 
your normal mail.


Another consideration: if you're changing server names, it's generally 
better to create a new account anyway, and not try to tinker with the 
name in an existing account.  I have done that in the past, even in 
changing providers, but the result is that you get a lot of messiness at 
folder and file level within your user profile, and it's worse when you 
have multiple accounts.  Some of the naming includes server names when 
created, and if you're digging at that level, it can be really confusing 
to be seeing old names that don't correspond with current usage.  With 
this in mind, having a new account in place is probably a good idea.


As for making sure that you don't lose any of your mail archives, I 
recommend either (or both) of the following:


1) Before you do any additional tinkering, make sure you get a backup of 
your existing profile.  In Windows, you want to get the entire contents 
of %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey .  The AppData folder is normally hidden, 
where you can't find it in the Windows explorer, but if you put that 
path (with the environment variable) in the Explorer's address bar, it's 
no problem to find.  And depending on what backup tool you use, some 
allow you to use that construct in what you're including in your 
backups.  For me, if I'm doing a data backup, besides all the normal 
libraries in Windows, I include that designation, so that I get all my 
Seamonkey data, and I do the same with my data for Firefox and 
Thunderbird (%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox and %APPDATA%\Thunderbird, 
respectively -- Thunderbird's designation is slightly different, for 
some reason).


Even if you don't do this for your regular backups, getting a copy of 
your Seamonkey data *somewhere* is a really good idea, even if you 
simply copy %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey to your Documents library.


2) If you anticipate the possibility of deleting your existing POP 
account, copy all you mail data into Local Folders, where it can stay, 
even if the account gets deleted. There's a number of useful things that 
you can do 

Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Daniel]

Frog wrote on 2/05/2020 5:11 AM:

On 5/1/2020 11:18 AM, WaltS48 wrote:

On 4/30/20 4:58 PM, Frog wrote:

On 4/30/2020 3:34 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

On 4/30/20 2:16 PM, Frog wrote:




I'm not sure I understand what won't work.  I continue to use my 
original usern...@verizon.net address when I send/retrieve my email 
from AOL...and it continues to work in the AOL's mail system.


What won't work is trying to use the Verizon address with an 
imap.aol.com or pop.aol.com server name in your configuration.


It should be.

Server Name: pop.verizon.net.
Port: 995
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

The outgoing SMTP server settings are:
Server Name: smtp.verizon.net
Port:465
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

That's what my settings are.

You probably have to resolve that Known Issue before you can create 
an email account.


WOW!!!  I entered the settings as you suggested and I can again 
access this help page on SeaMonkey.  I, however, cannot see the text 
of the messages...all I see is the following when attempting to open 
a message:



Launch Application    X
This link needs to be opened with an application.
Send to:
 Pick an app
Choose other Application Choose...

___Remember my choice for news links.

 Cancel    Open link

Thus, I had to return to Thunderbird to make this message available 
for reading the text of your message and being able to respond to 
your message.  When I click "Choose" on this small window I am taken 
to another window titled "Another Application."  When I click "Open 
link", it takes me to a blank page with the same message documented 
above.


What is causing my messages open normally in SeaMonkey?

Thanks again for getting me this far in solving my SeaMonkey problems.

Frog


Your confused? That makes two of use. ;)

So creating the email account worked, you can receive and send email, 
but can't read newsgroup messages in your newsgroup account?


I vaguely remember seeing that message when trying to read newsgroup 
messages. Forget which version and I'm not sure what I did to fix it.


Here is a link to my settings.



If you want SeaMonkey to be the default for Mail, News and Feeds 
select each button. I only have News selected and that may be what 
fixed it for me.


Good luck!


Thanks for your continuing help...I would be lost without you and the 
other helpers on this group.


I am starting to wonder if I should delete both of the accounts I have 
on SeaMonkey and start all over with one new account.  I make this 
comment based on selecting SeaMonkey to provide everything I need...Mail 
- News - Feeds.


Be aware, Frog, that if you delete both your accounts on SeaMonkey, you 
will be deleting all the e-mails you have sent and received on those two 
accounts!


Least that's what happened to me! ;-(

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Win7 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) 
Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.5 Build identifier: 20190609032134


Linux User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) 
Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623

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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 5/1/2020 11:18 AM, WaltS48 wrote:

On 4/30/20 4:58 PM, Frog wrote:

On 4/30/2020 3:34 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

On 4/30/20 2:16 PM, Frog wrote:

On 4/29/2020 8:10 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL 
email account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can 
only access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support 
group is accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every 
combination of settings that I have read about and nothing makes a 
connection to AOL via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me 
simple directions for how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to 
have my AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need 
simple-to- follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is 
version 2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


You have a usern...@aol.com email account or are trying to use your 
usern...@verizon.net email address with AOL mail?


I can agree that I have an email address at AOL and it is 
usern...@verison.net.  I agreed/selected some two years ago to 
retain my original Verizon email address over a new AOL email 
address.  I made this selection because I thought it would save me a 
lot of time informing people about a new email address.  Also, I was 
uneasy about my technical skill that I thought would be needed to 
change "things" in my computer to make a new address work.  I'm not 
sure, in light of my situation today, that I made a wise choice to 
continue to use my Verizon address.  Bottom line..I have never had a 
usern...@aol.com email address.


That won't work.


I'm not sure I understand what won't work.  I continue to use my 
original usern...@verizon.net address when I send/retrieve my email 
from AOL...and it continues to work in the AOL's mail system.


What won't work is trying to use the Verizon address with an 
imap.aol.com or pop.aol.com server name in your configuration.


It should be.

Server Name: pop.verizon.net.
Port: 995
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

The outgoing SMTP server settings are:
Server Name: smtp.verizon.net
Port:465
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

That's what my settings are.

You probably have to resolve that Known Issue before you can create 
an email account.


WOW!!!  I entered the settings as you suggested and I can again 
access this help page on SeaMonkey.  I, however, cannot see the text 
of the messages...all I see is the following when attempting to open a 
message:



Launch Application    X
This link needs to be opened with an application.
Send to:
 Pick an app
Choose other Application Choose...

___Remember my choice for news links.

 Cancel    Open link

Thus, I had to return to Thunderbird to make this message available 
for reading the text of your message and being able to respond to your 
message.  When I click "Choose" on this small window I am taken to 
another window titled "Another Application."  When I click "Open 
link", it takes me to a blank page with the same message documented 
above.


What is causing my messages open normally in SeaMonkey?

Thanks again for getting me this far in solving my SeaMonkey problems.

Frog



Your confused? That makes two of use. ;)

So creating the email account worked, you can receive and send email, 
but can't read newsgroup messages in your newsgroup account?


I vaguely remember seeing that message when trying to read newsgroup 
messages. Forget which version and I'm not sure what I did to fix it.


Here is a link to my settings.



If you want SeaMonkey to be the default for Mail, News and Feeds select 
each button. I only have News selected and that may be what fixed it for 
me.


Good luck!



Thanks for your continuing help...I would be lost without you and the 
other helpers on this group.


I am starting to wonder if I should delete both of the accounts I have 
on SeaMonkey and start all over with one new account.  I make this 
comment based on selecting SeaMonkey to provide everything I need...Mail 
- News - Feeds.  I just sent a message that includes most of the 
settings I have in my two existing accounts.  They seem to present a 
real mishmash of instructions and this makes me think deleting both 
existing accounts and starting over with one new account is what I need 
to do. SeaMonkey was previously doing everything for me and why not 
return to what has always worked for me.  I will continue to have AOL 
and Thunderbird/Firefox on my system as backups.


Now to the unknown part of this possible move...what if I can get only 
the subject lines of messages and then be asked "Choose other 
application" to open/read all messages?  I suppose I could always revert 
back my 

Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 5/1/2020 11:18 AM, WaltS48 wrote:

On 4/30/20 4:58 PM, Frog wrote:

On 4/30/2020 3:34 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

On 4/30/20 2:16 PM, Frog wrote:

On 4/29/2020 8:10 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL 
email account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can 
only access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support 
group is accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every 
combination of settings that I have read about and nothing makes a 
connection to AOL via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me 
simple directions for how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to 
have my AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need 
simple-to- follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is 
version 2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


You have a usern...@aol.com email account or are trying to use your 
usern...@verizon.net email address with AOL mail?


I can agree that I have an email address at AOL and it is 
usern...@verison.net.  I agreed/selected some two years ago to 
retain my original Verizon email address over a new AOL email 
address.  I made this selection because I thought it would save me a 
lot of time informing people about a new email address.  Also, I was 
uneasy about my technical skill that I thought would be needed to 
change "things" in my computer to make a new address work.  I'm not 
sure, in light of my situation today, that I made a wise choice to 
continue to use my Verizon address.  Bottom line..I have never had a 
usern...@aol.com email address.


That won't work.


I'm not sure I understand what won't work.  I continue to use my 
original usern...@verizon.net address when I send/retrieve my email 
from AOL...and it continues to work in the AOL's mail system.


What won't work is trying to use the Verizon address with an 
imap.aol.com or pop.aol.com server name in your configuration.


It should be.

Server Name: pop.verizon.net.
Port: 995
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

The outgoing SMTP server settings are:
Server Name: smtp.verizon.net
Port:465
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

That's what my settings are.

You probably have to resolve that Known Issue before you can create 
an email account.


WOW!!!  I entered the settings as you suggested and I can again 
access this help page on SeaMonkey.  I, however, cannot see the text 
of the messages...all I see is the following when attempting to open a 
message:



Launch Application    X
This link needs to be opened with an application.
Send to:
 Pick an app
Choose other Application Choose...

___Remember my choice for news links.

 Cancel    Open link

Thus, I had to return to Thunderbird to make this message available 
for reading the text of your message and being able to respond to your 
message.  When I click "Choose" on this small window I am taken to 
another window titled "Another Application."  When I click "Open 
link", it takes me to a blank page with the same message documented 
above.


What is causing my messages open normally in SeaMonkey?

Thanks again for getting me this far in solving my SeaMonkey problems.

Frog



Your confused? That makes two of use. ;)

So creating the email account worked, you can receive and send email, 
but can't read newsgroup messages in your newsgroup account?


I vaguely remember seeing that message when trying to read newsgroup 
messages. Forget which version and I'm not sure what I did to fix it.


Here is a link to my settings.



If you want SeaMonkey to be the default for Mail, News and Feeds select 
each button. I only have News selected and that may be what fixed it for 
me.


Good luck!



Thanks for your continuing help...I would be lost without you and the 
other helpers on this group.


I am starting to wonder if I should delete both of the accounts I have 
on SeaMonkey and start all over with one new account.  I make this 
comment based on selecting SeaMonkey to provide everything I need...Mail 
- News - Feeds.  I just sent a message that includes most of the 
settings I have in my two existing accounts.  They seem to present a 
real mishmash of instructions and this makes me think deleting both 
existing accounts and starting over with one new account is what I need 
to do. SeaMonkey was previously doing everything for me and why not 
return to what has always worked for me.  I will continue to have AOL 
and Thunderbird/Firefox on my system as backups.


Now to the unknown part of this possible move...what if I can get only 
the subject lines of messages and then be asked "Choose other 
application" to open/read all messages?  I suppose I could always revert 
back my 

Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[WaltS48]

On 5/1/20 2:03 PM, Frog wrote:
Thank you for helping me with fixing a part of my world I know very 
little about...computers.


I made the changes you recommended and I am not able to access my AOL 
mail from SeaMonkey.  I attempted to download my email messages from AOL 
after the changes were made and this is the error message I received:



Error with account f...@verizon.net
Request failed Mailbox unavailable.  Please verify that your email 
address is correct in your account settings and try again.


I have two accounts in SeaMonkey...one account is for my newsgroups and 
browsing the internet.  The second (titled AOL) account is used for 
downloading email messages from AOL to SeaMonkey.  I believe a select 
look at the two accounts tells me that something is wrong between the 
two accounts.  Thus, I am sending select account settings for both 
accounts for your review.


Account Name    AOL Account
Your Name    Frog
Email Address    f...@verizon.net
SMTP Server
Settings
Description    f...@verizon.net
Server Name    smtp:aol.com
Port    465
Connection security    SSL/TLS
Authentication method    Normal password
User Name    Frog
Server Settings
Server Type    POP Mail Server    Port 993  Default 995
User Name    frog
Connection Security SSL/TLS
Aythentication    Normal Password
Local directory    E:SeaMonkeyprofile\mail\pop.aol.com


Select pages for account titled "Account Settings - 

Account Name    f...@verizon.net
Your Name    AOL Account
Email Address    f...@verizon.net
SMTP Server
Settings
Description    f...@verizon.net
Server Name    smtp:aol.com
Port    465
Connection security    SSL/TLS
Authentication method    Normal password
User Name    Frog
Server Settings
Server Type    POP Mail Server    Port 995  Default 995
User Name    f...@verizon.net
Connection Security SSL/TLS
Aythentication    Normal Password
Local directory    E:SeaMonkeyprofile\mail\incoming.verizon.net

I hope you can follow the above.  Thanks again for helping me with my 
seemingly endless computer problems.


Frog




You can't use an AOL server for a Verizon POP email account. I just 
found that it appears you can for a Verizon IMAP account.


[excertptquote] Update server settings

Most email software and applications have an account settings menu where 
you'll need to update the IMAP or POP3 settings.


When entering your account info, make sure you use your full email 
address, including @verizon.net, and that the SSL encryption is enabled 
for incoming and outgoing mail.


ProtocolServer Settings Port Settings
POP 3   

Incoming mail server (POP3): pop.verizon.netPOP3-995-SSL
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.verizon.net   SMTP-465-SSL


IMAP

Incoming mail server (IMAP): imap.aol.com   IMAP-993-SSL
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.verizon.net   SMTP-465-SSL
[/endqoute]

REF: 



Pick one and fix your settings.

Other options are to use Web mail from  or use the 
account wizard in Thunderbird to setup the POP Verizon account.


Just enter your name, email address and password, then click the 
"Continue" button, when it finds the server settings click "Done".


Then use those settings to configure your SeaMonkey mail.



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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

Thank you for helping me with fixing a part of my world I know very 
little about...computers.


I made the changes you recommended and I am not able to access my AOL 
mail from SeaMonkey.  I attempted to download my email messages from AOL 
after the changes were made and this is the error message I received:



Error with account f...@verizon.net
Request failed Mailbox unavailable.  Please verify that your email 
address is correct in your account settings and try again.


I have two accounts in SeaMonkey...one account is for my newsgroups and 
browsing the internet.  The second (titled AOL) account is used for 
downloading email messages from AOL to SeaMonkey.  I believe a select 
look at the two accounts tells me that something is wrong between the 
two accounts.  Thus, I am sending select account settings for both 
accounts for your review.


Account NameAOL Account
Your Name   Frog
Email Address   f...@verizon.net
SMTP Server
Settings
Description f...@verizon.net
Server Name smtp:aol.com
Port465
Connection security SSL/TLS
Authentication method   Normal password
User Name   Frog
Server Settings
Server Type POP Mail ServerPort 993  Default 995
User Name   frog
Connection Security SSL/TLS
Aythentication  Normal Password
Local directory E:SeaMonkeyprofile\mail\pop.aol.com


Select pages for account titled "Account Settings - 

Account Namef...@verizon.net
Your Name   AOL Account
Email Address   f...@verizon.net
SMTP Server
Settings
Description f...@verizon.net
Server Name smtp:aol.com
Port465
Connection security SSL/TLS
Authentication method   Normal password
User Name   Frog
Server Settings
Server Type POP Mail ServerPort 995  Default 995
User Name   f...@verizon.net
Connection Security SSL/TLS
Aythentication  Normal Password
Local directory E:SeaMonkeyprofile\mail\incoming.verizon.net

I hope you can follow the above.  Thanks again for helping me with my 
seemingly endless computer problems.


Frog



On 5/1/2020 8:36 AM, rmpbklyn wrote:

see this 
https://help.aol.com/articles/download-your-email-from-aol-mail-with-imap
Then, use this info to configure your app
Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server
• Server - export.imap.aol.com
• Port - 993
• Requires SSL - Yes

Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server
• Server - smtp.aol.com
• Port - 465
• Requires SSL - Yes
• Requires authentication - Yes

On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 7:41:24 PM UTC-4, Frog wrote:

I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only access
web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?

Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to-
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.

My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version
2.53.1

Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[WaltS48]

On 4/30/20 4:58 PM, Frog wrote:

On 4/30/2020 3:34 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

On 4/30/20 2:16 PM, Frog wrote:

On 4/29/2020 8:10 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL 
email account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can 
only access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support 
group is accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every 
combination of settings that I have read about and nothing makes a 
connection to AOL via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me 
simple directions for how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have 
my AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need 
simple-to- follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is 
version 2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


You have a usern...@aol.com email account or are trying to use your 
usern...@verizon.net email address with AOL mail?


I can agree that I have an email address at AOL and it is 
usern...@verison.net.  I agreed/selected some two years ago to retain 
my original Verizon email address over a new AOL email address.  I 
made this selection because I thought it would save me a lot of time 
informing people about a new email address.  Also, I was uneasy about 
my technical skill that I thought would be needed to change "things" 
in my computer to make a new address work.  I'm not sure, in light of 
my situation today, that I made a wise choice to continue to use my 
Verizon address.  Bottom line..I have never had a usern...@aol.com 
email address.


That won't work.


I'm not sure I understand what won't work.  I continue to use my 
original usern...@verizon.net address when I send/retrieve my email 
from AOL...and it continues to work in the AOL's mail system.


What won't work is trying to use the Verizon address with an 
imap.aol.com or pop.aol.com server name in your configuration.


It should be.

Server Name: pop.verizon.net.
Port: 995
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

The outgoing SMTP server settings are:
Server Name: smtp.verizon.net
Port:465
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

That's what my settings are.

You probably have to resolve that Known Issue before you can create an 
email account.


WOW!!!  I entered the settings as you suggested and I can again 
access this help page on SeaMonkey.  I, however, cannot see the text of 
the messages...all I see is the following when attempting to open a 
message:



Launch Application    X
This link needs to be opened with an application.
Send to:
 Pick an app
Choose other Application Choose...

___Remember my choice for news links.

     Cancel    Open link

Thus, I had to return to Thunderbird to make this message available for 
reading the text of your message and being able to respond to your 
message.  When I click "Choose" on this small window I am taken to 
another window titled "Another Application."  When I click "Open link", 
it takes me to a blank page with the same message documented above.


What is causing my messages open normally in SeaMonkey?

Thanks again for getting me this far in solving my SeaMonkey problems.

Frog



Your confused? That makes two of use. ;)

So creating the email account worked, you can receive and send email, 
but can't read newsgroup messages in your newsgroup account?


I vaguely remember seeing that message when trying to read newsgroup 
messages. Forget which version and I'm not sure what I did to fix it.


Here is a link to my settings.



If you want SeaMonkey to be the default for Mail, News and Feeds select 
each button. I only have News selected and that may be what fixed it for me.


Good luck!

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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[WaltS48]

They aren't using an AOL email address so that isn't relevant unless 
they decide to create one.


They have a Verizon email address. AOL now hosts Verizon mail since 
Verizon owns AOL and moved their email accounts there.


Thanks for the information though.

On 5/1/20 8:36 AM, rmpbklyn wrote:

see this 
https://help.aol.com/articles/download-your-email-from-aol-mail-with-imap
Then, use this info to configure your app
Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server
• Server - export.imap.aol.com
• Port - 993
• Requires SSL - Yes

Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server
• Server - smtp.aol.com
• Port - 465
• Requires SSL - Yes
• Requires authentication - Yes

On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 7:41:24 PM UTC-4, Frog wrote:

I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only access
web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?

Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to-
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.

My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version
2.53.1

Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog





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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[rmpbklyn]

see this 
https://help.aol.com/articles/download-your-email-from-aol-mail-with-imap
Then, use this info to configure your app
Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server
• Server - export.imap.aol.com
• Port - 993
• Requires SSL - Yes

Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server
• Server - smtp.aol.com
• Port - 465
• Requires SSL - Yes
• Requires authentication - Yes

On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 7:41:24 PM UTC-4, Frog wrote:
> I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email 
> account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only access 
> web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is 
> accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of 
> settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL 
> via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for 
> how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?
> 
> Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my 
> AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
> follow instructions as to how to make that happen.
> 
> My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
> 2.53.1
> 
> Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.
> 
> Frog

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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 4/30/2020 3:34 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

On 4/30/20 2:16 PM, Frog wrote:

On 4/29/2020 8:10 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL 
email account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can 
only access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support 
group is accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every 
combination of settings that I have read about and nothing makes a 
connection to AOL via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me 
simple directions for how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have 
my AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need 
simple-to- follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is 
version 2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


You have a usern...@aol.com email account or are trying to use your 
usern...@verizon.net email address with AOL mail?


I can agree that I have an email address at AOL and it is 
usern...@verison.net.  I agreed/selected some two years ago to retain 
my original Verizon email address over a new AOL email address.  I 
made this selection because I thought it would save me a lot of time 
informing people about a new email address.  Also, I was uneasy about 
my technical skill that I thought would be needed to change "things" 
in my computer to make a new address work.  I'm not sure, in light of 
my situation today, that I made a wise choice to continue to use my 
Verizon address.  Bottom line..I have never had a usern...@aol.com 
email address.


That won't work.


I'm not sure I understand what won't work.  I continue to use my 
original usern...@verizon.net address when I send/retrieve my email 
from AOL...and it continues to work in the AOL's mail system.


What won't work is trying to use the Verizon address with an 
imap.aol.com or pop.aol.com server name in your configuration.


It should be.

Server Name: pop.verizon.net.
Port: 995
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

The outgoing SMTP server settings are:
Server Name: smtp.verizon.net
Port:465
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

That's what my settings are.

You probably have to resolve that Known Issue before you can create an 
email account.


WOW!!!  I entered the settings as you suggested and I can again 
access this help page on SeaMonkey.  I, however, cannot see the text of 
the messages...all I see is the following when attempting to open a message:



Launch ApplicationX
This link needs to be opened with an application.
Send to:
Pick an app
Choose other ApplicationChoose...

___Remember my choice for news links.

Cancel  Open link

Thus, I had to return to Thunderbird to make this message available for 
reading the text of your message and being able to respond to your 
message.  When I click "Choose" on this small window I am taken to 
another window titled "Another Application."  When I click "Open link", 
it takes me to a blank page with the same message documented above.


What is causing my messages open normally in SeaMonkey?

Thanks again for getting me this far in solving my SeaMonkey problems.

Frog

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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[WaltS48]

On 4/30/20 2:16 PM, Frog wrote:

On 4/29/2020 8:10 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL 
email account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can 
only access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support 
group is accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every 
combination of settings that I have read about and nothing makes a 
connection to AOL via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me 
simple directions for how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have 
my AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


You have a usern...@aol.com email account or are trying to use your 
usern...@verizon.net email address with AOL mail?


I can agree that I have an email address at AOL and it is 
usern...@verison.net.  I agreed/selected some two years ago to retain my 
original Verizon email address over a new AOL email address.  I made 
this selection because I thought it would save me a lot of time 
informing people about a new email address.  Also, I was uneasy about my 
technical skill that I thought would be needed to change "things" in my 
computer to make a new address work.  I'm not sure, in light of my 
situation today, that I made a wise choice to continue to use my Verizon 
address.  Bottom line..I have never had a usern...@aol.com email address.


That won't work.


I'm not sure I understand what won't work.  I continue to use my 
original usern...@verizon.net address when I send/retrieve my email from 
AOL...and it continues to work in the AOL's mail system.


What won't work is trying to use the Verizon address with an 
imap.aol.com or pop.aol.com server name in your configuration.


It should be.

Server Name: pop.verizon.net.
Port: 995
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

The outgoing SMTP server settings are:
Server Name: smtp.verizon.net
Port:465
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

That's what my settings are.

You probably have to resolve that Known Issue before you can create an 
email account.


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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 4/29/2020 8:10 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email 
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only 
access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is 
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of 
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL 
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for 
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my 
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


You have a usern...@aol.com email account or are trying to use your 
usern...@verizon.net email address with AOL mail?


I can agree that I have an email address at AOL and it is 
usern...@verison.net.  I agreed/selected some two years ago to retain my 
original Verizon email address over a new AOL email address.  I made 
this selection because I thought it would save me a lot of time 
informing people about a new email address.  Also, I was uneasy about my 
technical skill that I thought would be needed to change "things" in my 
computer to make a new address work.  I'm not sure, in light of my 
situation today, that I made a wise choice to continue to use my Verizon 
address.  Bottom line..I have never had a usern...@aol.com email address.


That won't work.


I'm not sure I understand what won't work.  I continue to use my 
original usern...@verizon.net address when I send/retrieve my email from 
AOL...and it continues to work in the AOL's mail system.  >

Have you read the SeaMonkey Known Issues and attmpted this fix.

After creating a news account through clicking a news URL, the MailNews 
account wizard may be broken (the account type will always be News). To 
work around the problem, set the mail.server.serverX.valid pref (where X 
is the internal number of the corresponding news account) to true in 
about:config, or delete the invalid news account (bug 521861).


No, I have not read the SeaMonkey Known Issues and attempted a fix.  I 
will do a search for SeaMonkey bug fixes and see if I can locate bug fix 
521861. Hopefully I will find this item and that it communicates a fix I 
can understand.  As i stated in my response to Paul in Houston...I am 
and user of a computer and have very limited technical computer skills.


Why can't you use SeaMonkey for newsgroups?


Simply put, I have attempted to access this mailgroup repeatedly and all 
I get is a long period of a blank screen followed by a timed out 
message.  I can't download newsgroup messages, respond or create 
messages when using SeaMonkey...it's as if it is dead.


I finally gave up on trying to find a fix for my problems and then set 
up Thunderbird in an attempt to find guidance on how to make every thing 
work once more.


I appreciate your help and I do apologize to you and all of the other 
responders for my lack of responsiveness during my earlier cry for help 
on this newsgroup.  I was lost as to how to make my newsgroups work on 
SeaMonkey...thus, I was fighting to keep my head above water at that 
time.  I am not much better of now than I was at that time...but I am 
now able to access this newsgroup via Thunderbird.



Frog

P.S. I presented more details about my dilemma in my earlier message to 
Paul in Houston, TX...also in this thread.


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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 4/30/2020 12:58 AM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote:

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email 
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only 
access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is 
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of 
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL 
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for 
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my 
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


Lets fix the NG access first because its easiest to fix.
You last accessed this NG with SM on Apr 17.
What have you changed since then to not able to access this group?



Paul, thanks for your response to my message.

The problem started when suddenly I decided to visit this support group. 
 I attempted to open this group and repeatedly received a small message 
to the effect that my request had timed out.  Then, I noticed that I 
would receive this message without my checking my mail...it would pop up 
on the screen without any action being taken.  I assumed that it was 
making normal checks for support group messages.  Long story short, I 
found that my actions taken to move from Verizon to AOL must have not 
been correct...thus, I downloaded Thunderbird and Firefox and started 
using it for accessing this support group.  I personally believe that 
Verizon suddenly did something that caused me to lose access to 
everything except visiting web pages.  This caused me to start using AOL 
software (which I did install some two years ago when Verizon bought 
AOL).  I did not like the AOL mail system as much as I liked having my 
mail on SeaMonkey (which continued to work until (I believe) Verizon 
suddenly cut my access to everything except visiting web pages.  That 
forced me to use AOL for my mail.


That (I believe) was the cause of my many problems with SeaMonkey.  I 
had earlier tried to establish an AOL account on SeaMonkey.  I got on 
the internet looking for help...port numbers, server name, POP or IMAP, 
and on to many other things I needed to know in order to make an attempt 
to have an AOL account on SeaMonkey.  I then decided to make an AOL 
account on SeaMonkey.  Well, another long story, I made several attempts 
to make a workable account on SeaMonkey and was unsuccessful in all of 
my efforts.


I thought one of my major problems with the new account was my email 
address...I made a decision, when AOL came about, to continue to use my 
original Verizon email address in AOL.  This fact caused me many periods 
of thought as to what should be in the account in order to make it 
work...and nothing I did was a success.


I noted during this problem that my old Verizon account was my Default 
account on SeaMonkey.  I then decided to make AOL the default SeaMonkey 
account.  This act resulted in my losing all of my saved Verizon emails. 
 This action also had an effect on my AOL account...I lost all of my 
AOL saved messages and was no longer able to access my AOL mail.  At 
this point, I once again reverted back to having my old Verizon account 
as my Default account...with the result of being able to access my AOL 
mail normally.  I had a thought that my phone line is Verizon and 
somehow that was a part of my problem...but later I decided that a phone 
line is a phone line, and that wasn't a part of my problem.


I have read and printed items found on the internet that I thought would 
make my efforts a success.  I was at this point that I realized that 
this old man (83) needed help with this problem.  As noted in my 
messages to the support group, I am looking for simple-to-follow 
instructions as to how to achieve my goal.


At the moment, I have SeaMonkey on my system and it is only able to 
perform as a browser of web pages.  I have Firefox and Thunderbird on my 
system that allows me to send this message and it performs as a browser. 
 I have AOL on my system and it allows me to access my mail (and likely 
a number of other things that I haven't had time to explore).  I have 
used SeaMonkey for years and Netscape before that (back to 95).  I feel 
like I am at home when using SeaMonkey and that is why I wanted to use 
it for all of my internet activities...user group, mail, and browser.


Bottom line, I continue to receive time-out messages on SeaMonkey while 
attempting  to visit this support group and when attempting take an 
action involving my normal mail...visiting web pages is the only 
SeaMonkey action that I can take without being confronted with the 
time-out message,.


Well Paul, that is the best description I can give you for 

Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 4/30/2020 12:58 AM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote:

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email 
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only 
access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is 
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of 
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL 
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for 
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my 
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


Lets fix the NG access first because its easiest to fix.
You last accessed this NG with SM on Apr 17.
What have you changed since then to not able to access this group?



Paul, thanks for your response to my message.

The problem started when suddenly I decided to visit this support group. 
 I attempted to open this group and repeatedly received a small message 
to the effect that my request had timed out.  Then, I noticed that I 
would receive this message without my checking my mail...it would pop up 
on the screen without any action being taken.  I assumed that it was 
making normal checks for support group messages.  Long story short, I 
found that my actions taken to move from Verizon to AOL must have not 
been correct...thus, I downloaded Thunderbird and Firefox and started 
using it for accessing this support group.  I personally believe that 
Verizon suddenly did something that caused me to lose access to 
everything except visiting web pages.  This caused me to start using AOL 
software (which I did install some two years ago when Verizon bought 
AOL).  I did not like the AOL mail system as much as I liked having my 
mail on SeaMonkey (which continued to work until (I believe) Verizon 
suddenly cut my access to everything except visiting web pages.  That 
forced me to use AOL for my mail.


That (I believe) was the cause of my many problems with SeaMonkey.  I 
had earlier tried to establish an AOL account on SeaMonkey.  I got on 
the internet looking for help...port numbers, server name, POP or IMAP, 
and on to many other things I needed to know in order to make an attempt 
to have an AOL account on SeaMonkey.  I then decided to make an AOL 
account on SeaMonkey.  Well, another long story, I made several attempts 
to make a workable account on SeaMonkey and was unsuccessful in all of 
my efforts.


I thought one of my major problems with the new account was my email 
address...I made a decision, when AOL came about, to continue to use my 
original Verizon email address in AOL.  This fact caused me many periods 
of thought as to what should be in the account in order to make it 
work...and nothing I did was a success.


I noted during this problem that my old Verizon account was my Default 
account on SeaMonkey.  I then decided to make AOL the default SeaMonkey 
account.  This act resulted in my losing all of my saved Verizon emails. 
 This action also had an effect on my AOL account...I lost all of my 
AOL saved messages and was no longer able to access my AOL mail.  At 
this point, I once again reverted back to having my old Verizon account 
as my Default account...with the result of being able to access my AOL 
mail normally.  I had a thought that my phone line is Verizon and 
somehow that was a part of my problem...but later I decided that a phone 
line is a phone line, and that wasn't a part of my problem.


I have read and printed items found on the internet that I thought would 
make my efforts a success.  I was at this point that I realized that 
this old man (83) needed help with this problem.  As noted in my 
messages to the support group, I am looking for simple-to-follow 
instructions as to how to achieve my goal.


At the moment, I have SeaMonkey on my system and it is only able to 
perform as a browser of web pages.  I have Firefox and Thunderbird on my 
system that allows me to send this message and it performs as a browser. 
 I have AOL on my system and it allows me to access my mail (and likely 
a number of other things that I haven't had time to explore).  I have 
used SeaMonkey for years and Netscape before that (back to 95).  I feel 
like I am at home when using SeaMonkey and that is why I wanted to use 
it for all of my internet activities...user group, mail, and browser.


Bottom line, I continue to receive time-out messages on SeaMonkey while 
attempting  to visit this support group and when attempting take an 
action involving my normal mail...visiting web pages is the only 
SeaMonkey action that I can take without being confronted with the 
time-out message,.


Well Paul, that is the best description I can give you for 

Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Frog]

On 4/30/2020 12:58 AM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote:

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email 
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only 
access web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is 
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of 
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL 
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for 
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my 
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


Lets fix the NG access first because its easiest to fix.
You last accessed this NG with SM on Apr 17.
What have you changed since then to not able to access this group?



Paul, thanks for your response to my message.

The problem started when suddenly I decided to visit this support group. 
 I attempted to open this group and repeatedly received a small message 
to the effect that my request had timed out.  Then, I noticed that I 
would receive this message without my checking my mail...it would pop up 
on the screen without any action being taken.  I assumed that it was 
making normal checks for support group messages.  Long story short, I 
found that my actions taken to move from Verizon to AOL must have not 
been correct...thus, I downloaded Thunderbird and Firefox and started 
using it for accessing this support group.  I personally believe that 
Verizon suddenly did something that caused me to lose access to 
everything except visiting web pages.  This caused me to start using AOL 
software (which I did install some two years ago when Verizon bought 
AOL).  I did not like the AOL mail system as much as I liked having my 
mail on SeaMonkey (which continued to work until (I believe) Verizon 
suddenly cut my access to everything except visiting web pages.  That 
forced me to use AOL for my mail.


That (I believe) was the cause of my many problems with SeaMonkey.  I 
had earlier tried to establish an AOL account on SeaMonkey.  I got on 
the internet looking for help...port numbers, server name, POP or IMAP, 
and on to many other things I needed to know in order to make an attempt 
to have an AOL account on SeaMonkey.  I then decided to make an AOL 
account on SeaMonkey.  Well, another long story, I made several attempts 
to make a workable account on SeaMonkey and was unsuccessful in all of 
my efforts.


I thought one of my major problems with the new account was my email 
address...I made a decision, when AOL came about, to continue to use my 
original Verizon email address in AOL.  This fact caused me many periods 
of thought as to what should be in the account in order to make it 
work...and nothing I did was a success.


I noted during this problem that my old Verizon account was my Default 
account on SeaMonkey.  I then decided to make AOL the default SeaMonkey 
account.  This act resulted in my losing all of my saved Verizon emails. 
 This action also had an effect on my AOL account...I lost all of my 
AOL saved messages and was no longer able to access my AOL mail.  At 
this point, I once again reverted back to having my old Verizon account 
as my Default account...with the result of being able to access my AOL 
mail normally.  I had a thought that my phone line is Verizon and 
somehow that was a part of my problem...but later I decided that a phone 
line is a phone line, and that wasn't a part of my problem.


I have read and printed items found on the internet that I thought would 
make my efforts a success.  I was at this point that I realized that 
this old man (83) needed help with this problem.  As noted in my 
messages to the support group, I am looking for simple-to-follow 
instructions as to how to achieve my goal.


At the moment, I have SeaMonkey on my system and it is only able to 
perform as a browser of web pages.  I have Firefox and Thunderbird on my 
system that allows me to send this message and it performs as a browser. 
 I have AOL on my system and it allows me to access my mail (and likely 
a number of other things that I haven't had time to explore).  I have 
used SeaMonkey for years and Netscape before that (back to 95).  I feel 
like I am at home when using SeaMonkey and that is why I wanted to use 
it for all of my internet activities...user group, mail, and browser.


Bottom line, I continue to receive time-out messages on SeaMonkey while 
attempting  to visit this support group and when attempting take an 
action involving my normal mail...visiting web pages is the only 
SeaMonkey action that I can take without being confronted with the 
time-out message,.


Well Paul, that is the best description I can give you for 

Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[Paul in Houston, TX]

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email 
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only access 
web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is 
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of 
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL 
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for 
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my 
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


Lets fix the NG access first because its easiest to fix.
You last accessed this NG with SM on Apr 17.
What have you changed since then to not able to access this group?
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Re: How to access my AOL mail account using SeaMonkey.

[WaltS48]

Frog wrote:


I have attempted to replace my Verizon email account with an AOL email 
account on SeaMonkey without success.  At the moment, I can only access 
web pages using SeaMonkey...my access to this support group is 
accessible only thru Thunderbird. I have tried every combination of 
settings that I have read about and nothing makes a connection to AOL 
via SeaMonkey.  Can someone point me or give me simple directions for 
how to access my AOL messages on SeaMonkey?


Would it be easier for me to abandon SeaMonkey and and move to have my 
AOL email delivered to Thunderbird?  If so, I will need simple-to- 
follow instructions as to how to make that happen.


My operating system is Windows 10 and my SeaMonkey version is version 
2.53.1


Please help me with simple-to-follow instructions.

Frog


You have a usern...@aol.com email account or are trying to use your 
usern...@verizon.net email address with AOL mail?


That won't work.

Have you read the SeaMonkey Known Issues and attmpted this fix.

After creating a news account through clicking a news URL, the MailNews 
account wizard may be broken (the account type will always be News). To 
work around the problem, set the mail.server.serverX.valid pref (where X 
is the internal number of the corresponding news account) to true in 
about:config, or delete the invalid news account (bug 521861).


Why can't you use SeaMonkey for newsgroups?
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