Hi,
I’ve run TB for a long time so before the change to TLS.
I’ve used the settings below successfully all this time and don’t seem to have luck with other settings via E… (read more)
Hi,
I’ve run TB for a long time so before the change to TLS.
I’ve used the settings below successfully all this time and don’t seem to have luck with other settings via Earthlink. But am now having problems retrieving emails from pop.earthlink.net
pop.earthlink.net port:110
smtpauth.earthliink.net port 587
Connection Security: None
Password: Transmitted insecurely, not saved in password manager
These are the same settings in an answered question https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1386214
These settings also work fine on my iPhone an have worked for years in TB.
Windows 7 64-bit
The problem started several days after updating from a very old version 45.8.0 to TB v115.4.2
TB would no longer retrieve emails from the POP server.
Click Get Messages and see no activity at all, no Error messages, no prompt for password after re-launch.
Close / re-launch TB and same result.
Uninstall TB and re-install TB and same result.
I finally resolved by uninstalling TB, manually deleting the profile which is not removed during uninstall.
Reinstalled and same problem.
Repeated again with no existing profile but with a PC re-boot in between.
TB re-downloaded all emails, I had to import address books and TB worked for about 2 weeks.
I do custom install to turn off remember password maintenance service leaving all others at the defaults and use manual configuration. Then advanced config to move forward since auto-detect doesn't succeed and there is no option in the initial install setup to choose password transmitted insecurely so the connection fails. It must be changed in the account settings afterwards.
Now the same problem/symptoms again.
Updated to v115.05.1 from TB help menu and same result.
Went through the uninstall/re-boot and that is not succeeding this time.
Another question suggested doing the following:
Go to Thunderbird advanced configuration, set mailnews.pop3.loglevel to 'All' in the config editor (Settings / General) CHANGED from Warn to All and open Tools / Developer Tools / Error console.
The following message was posted:
mailnews.pop3.2: ConnectionRefusedError: a Network error occurred Pop3Client.jsm:369:18
Any thoughts on a solution?
Regards,
p7