Did this and found all 3 servers were identical. I renamed one Webmail- Hotmail, edited another to use Yahoo and renamed it Webmail-Yahoo (I'm very creative that way).
Didn't work, though, until I went back to my Yahoo settings and selected Webmail-Yahoo. Now it's correct. Thanks, all! Now, about that Manage Identities button...? On Dec 11, 6:24 am, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > From what you say it sound like you have three localhost SMTP servers > set up, unfortunately they all have the same name. One, probably the > default, is Hotmail and one is Yahoo. If you scroll to the bottom of the > account settings page you will find the outgoing servers. From here you > can edit, delete or add servers. If you select one of the local host > servers and click on edit you can see what the user name is, this should > give you a clue as to which server is which. Once you've identified the > servers you can give them useful names like "Hotmail" or "Yahoo" so that > you can see which server you're selecting in individual accounts properties. > > > > Dooz wrote: > > That makes complete sense logically. However, when it comes to doing > > it, I'm lost. > > > I went to Hotmail>Accounts>View settings for this account>Account > > Settings, and found (at the bottom) SMTP is set for "Webmail - > > localhost" and that my only choices are Webmail - localhost (2 > > iterations) and Webmail - localhost (Default). I found that Yahoo is > > set the same way, apparently. > > > BTW, I don't think I set the Hotmail settings; I think they set > > themselves when I installed the Hotmail extension (but that didn't > > happen with Yahoo). > > > So the questions are, 1. Do I need to get rid of one or more of the > > Webmail - localhost iterations, and if so, how? and 2. What do I set > > the Yahoo to and how? > > > On Dec 10, 9:46 pm, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Sounds to me that you have your Hotmail account SMTP entry set as your > >> default in Thunderbird. That is fine for your Hotmail account. > > >> If you want your Yahoo account to have its own SMTP entry then you > >> need to set up an SMTP entry in Thunderbird for your Yahoo account > >> (just as you did for your Hotmail account). Then you need to make > >> sure that in the "Account Settings" panel of your Yahoo account you > >> have selected the Yahoo SMTP server as one to be used for your Yahoo > >> account. > > >> I have assumed that this will make sense to you. I apologize if I > >> have been unclear. If you prefer that I expand further to assist then > >> please advise. > > >> On Dec 10, 9:37 pm, Dooz <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> I've managed (with help from this group) to get both Hotmail and Yahoo > >>> (free US) working in Tbird (both accounts in one profile at the > >>> moment). > > >>> Problem: When I try to send from the Yahoo account, the mail is > >>> labeled (during composition) as from my Yahoo account, but when it's > >>> received (e.g. test message to my Hotmail account), the sender and > >>> return address are my Hotmail account. > > >>> 1. How can I get Tbird to send truly from Yahoo? (How do I choose > >>> which account I'm shown as / actually sending from?) > > >>> --or-- > > >>> 2. How can I clone this profile (so I can make one profile Hotmail and > >>> one Yahoo)? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG -http://www.avg.com > > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.16/1843 - Release Date: 12/11/2008 > > 8:36 AM > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
