I'm having the same trouble... or something worse. The "connection with localhost timed out" message pops up each time I try to reach my yahoo or hotmail. Info:
OS Vista home basic SP1 32 bit webmail 1.3.3b7 hotmail 1.2.22 yahoo 1.4.5b13 (beta or new version) pop 110 smtp 25 Thanks On Aug 5, 10:57 am, William Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, I think I see what you mean, but I don't know how to attach a > unique identifier to each localhost entry. Please elaborate. Thanks, Bill > > Chris Clifton wrote: > > If it's asking for the password for william.klein, but the address is > > billy589kl...@... it may be that you're using the wrong localhost > > server. I see that you have two localhost entries, it would be helpful > > to rename them to something meaningful so that you know which one > > relates to which web mail account. > > > William Klein wrote: > > >> Hi Chris, I now have four addresses on Thunderbird, including two with > >> Yahoo. > > >> I can send from hoyleboy39 fine but when I send a message out from > >> [email protected], I encounter an endless loop with this message: > > >> "Enter your password for william.klein on localhost:" > > >> After I cancel out of this loop I receive the following message: > > >> "Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because > >> connecting to SMTP server Localhost failed. The server may be > >> unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your > >> SMTP server setting is correct and try again, or else contact your > >> network supervisor." > > >> Here are the entries for Outgoing Server (SMTP) > >> University of Toronto - smtp.utoronto.ca > >> Webmail - Localhost > >> Webmail - localhost > >> william.klein - smtp1.sympatico.ca (Default) > >> [email protected] - smtp.gmail.com > >> plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com - localhost > > >> Could you please tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Bill > > >> Chris Clifton wrote: > > >>> You need to set up message filters in Thunderbird. By default > >>> Thunderbird will put all downloaded messages in the Inbox, this is a > >>> requirement of the POP protocol which Thunderbird and the extension > >>> follow. The extension does add a header, something along the lines of > >>> "X-folder= {name of folder}" where name of folder is the folder name in > >>> Yahoo. Use the "View" menu in Thunderbird and select "Message source" to > >>> see all the headers. You can set up a message filter rule something > >>> along the lines of, "If X-folder is", "{name of folder", then move > >>> message to "Folder". The folder that you move the message to can be > >>> named anything you like, most probably you will want folders named the > >>> same as your folders in Yahoo, but this is entirely your choice. > > >>> William Klein wrote: > > >>>> Hi Chris, I have now connected Thunderbird to my two Yahoo accounts. > >>>> My inbox should be almost empty but in Thunderbird all folders in my > >>>> main Yahoo account have been downloaded into my inbox, which now > >>>> contains almost 400 items. In Webmail - Yahoo>Options>POP I checked > >>>> Mark emails as read on server and Download junkmail and specified the > >>>> folders to download. Instead of maintaining the separate folders, > >>>> their contents are displayed in the inbox. > > >>>> When I view the account in Yahoo the folders and their contents remain > >>>> correctly separate. > > >>>> Please tell me how to keep the folders separate on Thunderbird. > >>>> Thanks, Bill > > >>>> Chris Clifton wrote: --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
