If you can use all your email accounts in Thunderbird without
extensions, then good for you. Many people will not be able to access
accounts in this way, e.g. on the office computer, your employer's IT
department may have blocked access to any POP, SMTP, and IMAP servers
other than the corporate servers. The extensions enable these people to
view their emails in Thunderbird rather than using web based email
viewed in a browser. Also some people like to be able to download emails
from custom folders other than the inbox in Hotmail and Yahoo!. A normal
POP connection as provided free by Hotmail and Yahoo! does not permit
this, the extensions do.
The extensions provide a useful service to those who cannot use POP or
who like the extra features. Admittedly though, they are less needed now
that Hotmail and Yahoo! both provide free POP access.
On 29/06/2011 19:15, Bill wrote:
I am trying to understand this problem, but I guess I didn't catch it
from the beginning.
I have ISP, gmail (imap), hotmail and yahoo (upgraded now) email
accounts configured in TB.
Since TB3, I don't even think I have had webmail installed. If it is,
it is invisible to me. I have 10 Plug Ins and one extension, none of
which are webmail. I have not had an issue with sending or rcvg email
on any of the accounts.
I just upgraded to TB5 and it took everything from TB3 and everything
appears to be functioning normally.
Has anyone with problems tried to install TB and configure their
accounts without installing webmail????
Just an idea.....seems to work for me.
bill
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