[Lilug] Dumb Thunderbird Question

Wes Roepken wes at cmrboss.com
Mon Feb 16 07:40:56 PST 2009


Hi Ken
Under server settings for the account, I've found that the user name has 
to be user at server.com. I've had a problem setting up a couple of 
customers properly, they only had user in that field and it the server 
rejected them until it was just right.

HTH
Wes

Kenneth Downs wrote:
> I'm setting up my email on a different box using Thunderbird.
> 
> I set up the account as "ken at secdat.com", and name the incoming IMAP 
> server   mail.example.com.
> 
> When I try to connect, it attempts to login as 
> "ken at secdat.com@mail.example.com".
> 
> It appears to be setup *exactly* like my laptop which works fine.
> 
> Anybody know where they hide the switch to turn this off?
> 



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