[Lilug] Dumb Thunderbird Question

Kenneth Downs ken at secdat.com
Mon Feb 16 08:48:39 PST 2009


Yeah, the username is ken at secdat.com.   The server is server.example.com.

When it goes to authenticate, it tries to log on as 
'ken at secdat.com@server.example.com'   how the f*** do I turn this off? 

Seems to me this really ought Just Work.

Wes Roepken wrote:
> 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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