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Title: Retrieving mail with thunderbird
Post by: yehaah on March 22, 2006, 10:09:20 AM

I havn't been able to retrieve mail with thunderbird, since i upgraded from v.6

I'm a bit tired of using webmail, and would like to hear if there is a guide on how to use thunderbird to retieve pop3s from SME.

Can i downgrade v7 to plain old pop3 instead of the secure version?

Title: Retrieving mail with thunderbird
Post by: byte on March 22, 2006, 10:29:12 AM

Yes there is a guide, its in the manaul here

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/SME7Manual

Title: Retrieving mail with thunderbird
Post by: Tib on March 22, 2006, 10:51:14 AM

yehaah

Might be a silly question but why do you want to use pop3 ... I use Thunderbird at home at work and my sister uses thunderbird from externally and all works well but we use it in imap mode.

I like to leave the mail on the server ... reason is if your computer crashes your mail is kept safe as the server is always backed up.

Same setup at work 40 odd users with imap all mail is left on the server that way with webmail externally you can still access the mail as if you were at home.

Regards,

Tib

Title: Retrieving mail with thunderbird
Post by: yehaah on March 22, 2006, 01:59:06 PM

I've looked in the manual, but can only find a guide to pop3. No pop3s guide.

I use pop3 with the "leave messages on server" funktion. In that way I still have them for later use.

Title: Retrieving mail with thunderbird
Post by: psoren on March 22, 2006, 04:23:15 PM

Quote from: "yehaah"

I've looked in the manual, but can only find a guide to pop3. No pop3s guide.

I use pop3 with the "leave messages on server" funktion. In that way I still have them for later use.

In Thunderbird go to accountsettings, then serversettings. Tick off SSL.
Then it uses pop3s for that account.

Per

Title: Retrieving mail with thunderbird
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 22, 2006, 08:05:21 PM

Quote from: "yehaah"

I've looked in the manual, but can only find a guide to pop3. No pop3s guide.

I use pop3 with the "leave messages on server" funktion. In that way I still have them for later use.

As you also would if you used 'imap'. Do you have a good reason not to use imap?

Title: Retrieving mail with thunderbird
Post by: alaskamatt on March 24, 2006, 12:53:08 AM

Jumping in a bit out of place, I too would rather have mail retrieval setup on POP3, rather than IMAP, with the setting of keep a copy of messages on the server.  IMAP's synchronization process can be painfully slow (I now wait 10 minutes to use Outlook, with only 4000 messages in my inbox and subfolders), and many of my users are connecting from remote locations.  I do appreciate the folder capabilities, but at times I wonder if it's worthwhile.

-- Alaskamatt

Title: Retrieving mail with thunderbird
Post by: Tib on March 24, 2006, 02:52:41 AM

Hi

I'm not quite understanding the difficulty in setting up a pop3 account.

It should be no harder then an IMAP account .... as a test I just set one up on thunderbird and all went fine.

You just have to setup an account ... after you enter your name and email details go to next page and you have a choice of IMAP or pop3.

Make sure all your SME settings under Email are correct for pop3 mail.

OK .. I found another problem ... may have to bring it up in the bug tracker ... the pop3s service does not start ... I had to manually start it through SME7admin. <--- Very handy tool

Then in Thunderbird under Server Setting (under the new pop3 account) make sure you highlight SSL (do not tick "Use Secure Authentication".

All should be well from here.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Tib.