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
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