Thank you so much for that link, I disabled my webmail and hotmail add- ons and followed the info in that link at it now WORKS....
Great !!!! On Aug 3, 11:45 am, rf <[email protected]> wrote: > I had the same problem. Solved by updating to THunderbird 3 where you > don't need the hotmail add-on. Set up hotmail using the > infohttp://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/hotmail_thunderbi... > > good luck > On Aug 2, 10:04 pm, Adendum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Not been able to access my hotmail accounts via Thunderbird for a > > week. The passwords were all being rejected but TB wouldn't allow me > > to enter a new password. I can access all hotmail accounts via my > > browser. > > > So today I tried finding updates to \Add Ons but TB reported none for > > webmail or or webmail- hotmail. Therefore I just downloaded the > > two .tar files from here dated Aug 1. These have been installed. > > > The password problem appears to have gone and it connects, sees the > > messages (I see downloading xxx in the status bar) but then get this > > error message "TheRETRcommand did not succeed. Error retrieving a > > message. Mail server localhost responded: negative vibes from > > [email protected]" > > > What next?
