I've received the same e-mail, yesterday. The only thing I can suppose is that they are tracing the access to the e-mail, and found that we don't access from the web page, but through the Thunderbird's extension.
On Sep 20, 7:10 pm, orephia <[email protected]> wrote: > Tnx Van, I saw that post a while back, but when I logged in I only > received a popup that I needed to set an alternate email, no captcha. > I entered an additional email address, & since then I have been able > to log in with firefox without any popups at all, captcha or > otherwise, but the Thunderbird addon has refused to work again for me > ever since this started many weeks ago. If there is a security > captcha that needs clearing I would like to find it. I have set > NoScript to permit all on the page, to no avail. > > The only other indication of anything changing is a recent mail from > their system advising me to consider upgrading to Premium service, & > that POP function will go away if I don't, but I am not using POP, so > I don't see how that can be related to this: > > "Dear *****[email protected], > > We thank you for being a Mail.com customer and appreciate you trying > the Premium email account service preview- which allows free email > customers to utilize features normally reserved for premium email > customers (POP & SMTP, Forwarding, etc). We noticed you are currently > utilizing these features and hope you find these services to be a > valuable addition to your Mail.com account. > > Unfortunately, our premium service preview will be coming to a close > soon and we want to ensure you have no disruption of service when that > happens. We invite you to upgrade to a premium email account before > the end of this preview. > > Premium Email Features : > > * IMAP and POP access (Use with Outlook, Blackberry, iPhone, and > more!) > * Email Forwarding into other accounts > * An advertising- free email experience > * 24/7 premium customer support (Phone & Chat) > > At just $1.67/month for an annual account, we hope you find these to > be great reasons to upgrade your account to Premium. You can upgrade > your account herehttps://www.mail.com/Account/PaymentPlan.aspx. > > Sincerely, > > Mail.com Product Team" > > Thanks for the suggestion anyway, I wish I could make use of it! As > far as "trying the Premium email account service preview" I have never > done any such thing, maybe they auto-enabled that at some point. > Wondering if that could be an issue here, I have looked for a setting > to disable it but find nothing. Perhaps that is the problem & when it > 'comes to a close soon' the webmail addon will start working again. > > Regards > > On Sep 15, 7:54 pm, Van <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi All: > > > I too have been stumbling with this mail.com issue. I came across the > > following post (http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail- > > extension/browse_thread/thread/8d809db58c80d6d5#) which solve my > > problem. Some sort of security captcha change required. Once I entered > > the code, TB was able to login to my mail.com account. > > > HTH others. Cheers > > > On Sep 10, 1:36 am, orephia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sure, logs sent, popConnectionlog9-9-2010.txt & AOL Log - 21-54-82 > > > -9-9-2010.txt > > > > hope this helps. apologies for the delay in checking back on the > > > thread. thanks so much for the long dedication to maintaining this! > > > > On Sep 9, 10:18 am, Webmail Author <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Can you send me the log files
