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Setting up Thunderbird, entered account info, now what? It does nothing.

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Hello, thank you for your help. What a pretty application.

I installed Thunderbird on Fedora 36. It came up and asked for account information. I typed some in, but needed to enter ports. I hit the advanced button and it gave me an unexpected message about my settings not being saved.

Anyway, the account settings->Server Settings, and settings->Outgoing Server, are all now set and correct. Strangely, there is no place on the form for entering the passwords for the incoming and outgoing accounts. I guess it will prompt for those?

I can not get Thunderbird to do anything at all.

If I tell it to read mail, nothing happens (and no password prompt so it can not have checked for messages).

There are no 'test connection' buttons on the settings pages that I can find.

There are no error messages that I can find, or any other indication of a problem.

LOL I am completely baffled and have no idea what to do to make it go. Any tips appreciated. Thanks!

Hello, thank you for your help. What a pretty application. I installed Thunderbird on Fedora 36. It came up and asked for account information. I typed some in, but needed to enter ports. I hit the advanced button and it gave me an unexpected message about my settings not being saved. Anyway, the account settings->Server Settings, and settings->Outgoing Server, are all now set and correct. Strangely, there is no place on the form for entering the passwords for the incoming and outgoing accounts. I guess it will prompt for those? I can not get Thunderbird to do anything at all. If I tell it to read mail, nothing happens (and no password prompt so it can not have checked for messages). There are no 'test connection' buttons on the settings pages that I can find. There are no error messages that I can find, or any other indication of a problem. LOL I am completely baffled and have no idea what to do to make it go. Any tips appreciated. Thanks!