My e-mail addresses are "orphaned" addresses i.e. originally from Tiscali (now Talk Talk) although my current ISP is now EE. I have been using Windows Live Mail on my Des… (læs mere)
My e-mail addresses are "orphaned" addresses i.e. originally from Tiscali (now Talk Talk) although my current ISP is now EE. I have been using Windows Live Mail on my Desktop and Laptop PCs (both Windows 7) for several years but recently suddenly could no longer receive any e-mails from on my Desktop PC.
I checked account settings which all appeared to be same on both machines. I was unable to repair WLM so backed up e-mail archive and attempted re-installing WLM - but unable as download / support for WLM from Microsoft has ended.
Anyway I have now installed Thunderbird and can set up accounts OK for my primary and secondary e-mail addresses and then can send out e-mails OK, but have not been able to receive e-mails at all.
(a) If I let Thunderbird set up the accounts automatically they are set up as IMAP and I do then get a list in the account Inbox of the e-mails currently on the server, but none of them will open at all - they just show a blank white page and I get a message that "the server has been disconnected".
(b) If I manually set up the account to POP3 (which I understand is the correct server type for my accounts) when I then try to receive mail a message briefly flashes up for a split second at the bottom of the screen saying how many messages are on the server but then says there are no messages to download.
I have tried altering the account settings in various ways but am not really sure what needs to be altered and have been unable to find any settings that work.
Attached is a screenprint showing the e-mail account settings which currently work OK (under WLM) on my laptop, which hopefully might give some clues as to what I am doing wrong.
Thanks in anticipation of your assistance as to what I need to do to receive e-mails via Thunderbird.
Regards
Mike