I had Thunderbird working and then upgraded to openSUSE 10.3, moved my Thunderbird default folder across and now I get this message when trying to get my company emails. Background is also that I have moved my email hosting as well.
The message is: "Sending the password did not succeed. Mail server mail.environmetrics.co.uk responded. Authentication failed."
This looks like a password problem but I have checked my password at my hosting firm and it agrees with what I am typing in.
There is probably some confusion in my mind with who my incoming and outgoing servers are. Wasn't a problem when I used ntlworld.com for both.
So further information to ponder:
My ISP is still ntlworld.com but my company email and website host is streamline.net. My company email is colin@??? (although it seems I can use anything e.g. enquiry@, root@,etc )
In Thunderbird, my email address is colin@???
My outgoing Server (SMTP) is colin - smtp.ntlworld.com
My POP Mail server is: mail.environmetrics.co.uk (on port 110)
NB to myself: why is there no connection to streamline.net as any form of server? Who has to be aware of streamline.net as hosting my company email address? Is it ntlworld as my ISP and outgoing server? As you can see, this message passing is not my strong point - I was better when we used cleft sticks
Is there anything glaringly wrong here - or should I continue with the wrong password angle.
Dr Colin R.Lloyd
CEH Fellow
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford
Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
UK
OX10 8BB
crl@???
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