[nmglug] Comcast and Thunderbird Blues Reprise
Alucard
alucard at swcp.com
Wed Apr 17 12:51:45 PDT 2019
Hi Tom,
I spent a couple of minutes to see if that was easily change-able from
command line. However, it looks like Thunderbird wants you to adjust
this via the GUI.
* Click on the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines that represent a
menu, top right of TBird)
* Hover over Preferences -> Account Settings
* Go to the Comcast email -> Server Settings
* Change the server name to: imap.comcast.net
* Change the same setting for any other Comcast emails.
If there was still no effect, re-open TBird and check again. If it still
won't change, then I would remove the IMAP account, and re-add it.
Unless you stray from this, then you will not lose any Local Folders, or
contacts.
* Click on the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines that represent a
menu, top right of TBird)
* Hover over Preferences -> Account Settings
* Click on the Comcast email
* Go to Account Actions and select Remove Account
* To re-add, Go to Account Actions and select Add Mail Account
* Manually configure your email account again.
* Repeat for any other Comcast email addresses in your current profile.
I don't think TBird really wants you to poke around in the config,
unless you're going to backup/restore files.
Regards,
Jared
On 4/17/19 1:16 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
> It's happening again. And no, I'm not off my meds, but I'm beginning
> to wonder if perhaps I should be on some as this stuff is starting to
> make me feel really crazy.
>
> Anyone know their way around the .thunderbird directories well enough
> to point me toward the likely suspects?
>
> First, Comcast apparently configured our rented modem-router in such a
> way that imap.comcast.net failed in all instances of Thunderbird on
> different machines in our house. I eventually discovered and adopted
> the workaround of using imap.ge.xfinity.com (perfectly functional, but
> with invalid certificate problems, probably due to my lack of
> knowledge or comprehension or motivation or time to figure it all out.)
>
> Next, I purchased our own modem-router and soon discovered that with
> the new router imap.comcast.net works fine in all instances on
> different machines in our house. So I set 'em all back to
> imap.comcast.net recommended defaults. Smooth sailing until...
>
> Now, after a couple or three weeks of successful use, I discover that
> on my wife's machine that both instances of Thunderbird in separate
> user accounts accounts have stopped downloading emails with
> imap.comcast.net. Ubuntu MATE 18.04 kicks up little screen messages
> saying that it can't connect with imap.ge.xfinity.com--which, of
> course, it shouldn't now be trying to do because server settings in
> both accounts are configured for imap.comcast.net
>
> Where do these gremlins reside and from whence did they come? Is it
> witchcraft? I put it to the council: Should someone be burned at the
> stake or is it only a wee misunderstanding?
>
>
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