[Lilug] Dumb Thunderbird Question

[Donald J. Organ IV]

what it displays there and what it is sending is two different things...

I eventually figured that out as well with thunderbird...



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Downs" <ken at secdat.com>
To: "LILUG Mailing List" <lilug at lilug.org>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 12:09:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Lilug] Dumb Thunderbird Question

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:57 -0500, Donald J. Organ IV wrote:
> Wait are you unable to login to the server? Or are you just complaining about the visual of it...?

It can't login because there is no account
"ken at secdat.com@mail.example.com".  It should send "ken at secdat.com" as
the login.

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Downs" <ken at secdat.com>
> To: wes at cmrboss.com, "LILUG Mailing List" <lilug at lilug.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:48:39 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Lilug] Dumb Thunderbird Question
> 
> 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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