All:
I've lived exclusively in the Linux world for so long that I've lost a
lot of my ability to work in other environments without going insane. I
recently had to help an elderly neighbor (86!) configure his XP box for
a new Sympatico DSL install, and it was hellish. The Sympatico install
CD was so dumbed down it did everything in the background, installing
all kinds of unnecessary crap, without actually conveying any facts or
information. Lovely Flash progress bars did put on a show though!
MSN, Yahoo toolbars, MST.net accounts, logins stored by MSN, home page
highjacking - what a load of crap. There's a bunch of Active-X crap
going on in Internet Exploder that looks suspicious.
I was in the process of trying to extract my neighbor from the clutches
of Lookout Express, moving him to Thunderbird and Firefox (this is the
FLOSS part of the discussion for the list police), and discovered I knew
nothing about Sympatico server names, login methods (SSL, TLS, etc.),
authentication (secure?) etc.
During the "magical" installation process I created a default email
account that works via the MSN webmail, and works in the
magically-altered Outlook Express. Trying to set the same parameters in
Thunderbird doesn't appear to work - I get rejected from the server.
Anyone know what Pathetico settings are necessary to talk to:
POP3
SMTP
Thanks in advance.
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Bill Strosberg