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Hi Tom,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Click on the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines that
represent a menu, top right of TBird)</li>
<li>Hover over Preferences -> Account Settings</li>
<li>Go to the Comcast email -> Server Settings</li>
<li>Change the server name to: imap.comcast.net </li>
<li>Change the same setting for any other Comcast emails.</li>
</ul>
<p>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.<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Click on the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines that
represent a menu, top right of TBird)</li>
<li>Hover over Preferences -> Account Settings</li>
<li>Click on the Comcast email</li>
<li>Go to Account Actions and select Remove Account</li>
<li>To re-add, Go to Account Actions and select Add Mail Account</li>
<li>Manually configure your email account again.</li>
<li>Repeat for any other Comcast email addresses in your current
profile.</li>
</ul>
<p>I don't think TBird really wants you to poke around in the
config, unless you're going to backup/restore files.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Jared<br>
</p>
<p><br>
<br>
</p>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/17/19 1:16 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:5a85541d-782b-f627-9881-2386ae0cc019@comcast.net">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.
<br>
<br>
Anyone know their way around the .thunderbird directories well
enough to point me toward the likely suspects?
<br>
<br>
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.)
<br>
<br>
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...
<br>
<br>
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
<br>
<br>
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?
<br>
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