
Login to server pop.windstream.net with username ----- failed
In the past month or two I have been dealing with a constantly recurring issue with Thunderbird getting my emails. Login to server pop.windstream.net with username ----- failed, and then it gives me the option to retry, enter new password, or cancel. 99% of the time, when I hit retry, my email downloads just fine. But I have multiple email accounts that I have to go through the same song and dance on every time I try to download my messages. Sometimes one or more of my email addresses will check and download ok... sometimes all of them will... sometimes none of them will. But choosing the retry option usually yields me good results so it doesn't appear that I have something in my settings that is wrong?? And usually if I shut down of Thunderbird and a restart of it, all email addresses will down;load perfectly the first time I try.
I wonder if it doesn't correlate with a Thunderbird update? I keep hoping that the issue will be resolved as quickly as it came through another update or something but it's been long enough to really start driving me crazy now so can you help me? What is going on with the normally smoothe and agreeable Thunderbird on my very same computer using the very same email addresses all of a sudden?
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EDIT - Nevermind! It is still an issue. I got the messages without the error a few times and now its back to giving me the error intermittently. So if anyone has any ideas?? It makes me think that this still may be a glitch issue that was in one of the updates??
I figured it out - apparently, something changed my connection security settings on all of my Windstream accounts?? When I looked at the troubleshooting information in Thunderbird, it had the STARTTLS option selected on them. But my Gmail was SSL/TLS, which seemed more familiar to me. So I manually changed all of the Windstream accounts to that SSL?TLS setting and haven't had the issue repeat since. I have no idea why it worked, but it sure seemed to have.
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Question - should I uninstall Thunderbird and try to reinstall it and see if that would make a difference? Can I do that and have my settings and folders remain as they are or would I have to start from scratch??