Thread: thunderbird email problem

John, I think you have to make Thunderbird your default mailer.
If you're using XP, try clicking 'start' > 'Set program access and defaults' > and set the defaults in the non-microsoft section. Or it might be in the 'custom' section. Sorry, don't have XP in front of me, going on memory, (oh dear)

Hope this is of some help
Rod

Thank you for your reply.


I checked and thunderbird is the default email

John macklin

There is a down arrow next to the get mail icon in the top left hand corner, click it and select the account you want and it should download the messages off the server.

If you open outlook first then it would have already downloaded the messages off the server unless you tell it to leave them there.

Tried that it does nothing


Thank You


John Macklin

Uninstall outlook. That will stop it.

or

In the accounts settings of outlook you are looking for the box that says
"leave messages on server" untick it

or

Just tell it not to check for new mail

If he uninstalls outlook he might loose all his emails, unless he backs them up. Do you get any error messages? I haven't used outlook for years since first switching to Netscape and now thunderbird.

thank you all for your help, however I decided to uninstall thunderbird becuase of problems.

1 The text size kept changing probably my fault but no matter what i did it would not stay at the size designated.

2 After a few usages of thunderbird everything I clicked on flickerd and i could not open anything, I would then go to Outlook and that would do the same, to the extent I could not use either. Since I unistalled thunderbird all is now OK.

A pity

Thank you for your help

John macklin

Originally Posted by macklin

Was outlook and explorer 6

Now Firefox and Thunderbird

I can send email via Thunderbird and as a test I sent one to myself , however when I clicked get email in Thunderbird I got nothing but when I went to Outlook my email was there

Any suggestions

John macklin

Have you set Thunderbird as your default email program?.
Try the new Thunderbird 3 now aavailable for download.
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