Re: [OxLUG] Thunderbird setup

On Thursday 10 July 2008 15:45:40 Colin Lloyd wrote:
> 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."
>
...
>
> Is there anything glaringly wrong here - or should I continue with the
> wrong password angle.
>

Do you need to use SSL or TLS

Try changing the password to something you know is wrong and then back to see
if you get a different message.