YEAH IT'S WORKING! Thanks everyone for the help, and thanks to the WebMail add-on developer! This is so preferable to the html logon. I futzed around with the YahooMail logon page a little. That seems to be what got it to work, but there were no pages to click through as described before. Whatev - all's well that ends well, at least in this case.
On May 30, 2:56 am, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > Becky, > Sometimes when you log into a web mail service on its web site you are > presented with one or more screens (pages) usually of information about > new services that you have to "click through" to get to your mail. The > web mail extension can't cope with this, the program is expecting the > normal log-in page, then straight to the mail pages. The only way around > this is to visit the web mail site yourself using your browser of choice > and view these screens. Once you've seen these pages, your web mail > provider will then once more take you straight from log-in to your mail > whether in person using a browser or by the extension which emulates > your actions on the web site in logging in and reading your mail. > > > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > I want to try what you did, alanrf. What exactly do you mean by "a > > few new screens?" > > Thank you, > > Becky > > > On May 24, 12:16 am, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> A few days ago I was experiencing this timeout problem with Yahoo as > >> well. > > >> Logging into Yahoo on the Web and going through a few new Yahoo > >> screens cleared the problem for me. > > >> Please also note that the Webmail Author has provided a new "pre- > >> release" update to the Yahoo mail add-on in the files section of this > >> forum. I have installed this version and Yahoo continues to work well > >> for me. > > >> On May 23, 4:13 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Wait, it's back to hanging at Connect: Host contacted, sending login > >>> information... > > >>> On May 16, 2:49 pm, Webmail Author <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> In Thunderbird's account setting can you try replacing localhost with > >>>> 127.0.0.1- Hide quoted text - > > >> - Show quoted text - > > --- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
