[Lilug] Dumb Thunderbird Question

[Kenneth Downs]

Arg!  It works.  It just displays misleading garbage. 

Donald J. Organ IV wrote:
> 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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