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cannot find correct incoming and outgoing settings for centurylink.net

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whaigler
whaigler

I CANNOT SEND OR RECEIVE ON MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD! ...This is the 2nd time this has happened. Using their guide to put in correct settings ...thunderbird failed. I tried alternate settings that worked ,however got a warning sign saying my setting would work, but thunderbird does not use encryption.....centurylink tech support says they use encryption.??????

My alternate e-mail address is yellowgrits@hotmail.com

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I CANNOT SEND OR RECEIVE ON MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD! ...This is the 2nd time this has happened. Using their guide to put in correct settings ...thunderbird failed. I tried alternate settings that worked ,however got a warning sign saying my setting would work, but thunderbird does not use encryption.....centurylink tech support says they use encryption.?????? My alternate e-mail address is yellowgrits@hotmail.com Please send the phone number of someone to talk with about this problem

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I,m back up after many hours working with tech support. the way I got back online was changing from centurylink's recommended server settings. They use incoming pop.centurylink.net and outgoing smtp.centurylink.net I finally got my email to work using pop.embarqmail.com and smtp.embarqmail.com instead of centurylink.net. My email address is whaigler@embarqmail.com

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Zenos
Zenos

How about providing a link to whatever website gave you the settings?

Zenos
Zenos

I found this:

http://internethelp.centurylink.com/internethelp/email-server-settings-2.html

and indeed it all uses SSL. Are these the settings that didn't work? What error messages did you get?

whaigler
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I,m back up after many hours working with tech support. the way I got back online was changing from centurylink's recommended server settings. They use incoming pop.centurylink.net and outgoing smtp.centurylink.net I finally got my email to work using pop.embarqmail.com and smtp.embarqmail.com instead of centurylink.net. My email address is whaigler@embarqmail.com