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.
Cancel Open 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. I didn't delete an
account at the start of this problem, however, I did loose all of my
historical messages at that time (mid March).
Hmm! I must be getting old!!
I don't like to hear the old words...I'm 83. I learned a lot of
technical information from you over the past years and I don't want to
think of you getting old. Always remember, you are only as old as you
think you are...and let us both think we are young.
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.
This comment makes a lot of logical sense to me. I believe that
accessing the mail account is separate from the personal mail situation.
I say this based on being able to open my personal mail on SeaMonkey
with no problems involved. I cannot open newsgroup messages on
SeaMonkey. Additionally, after seeing the subject line of a newsgroup
message on SeaMonkey, I can subsequently open that same message using
Thunderbird.
It was great to hear from you in this thread and I look forward to
receiving any thoughts you might sent my way on any part of list of
troubles.
Frog
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