KMail has ceased working on my Fedora-18/KDE laptop, after an update yesterday.
I've been thinking for some time that I should have an alternative mail-reader, as KMail has had several hiccups over recent years. So I have yum-installed Thunderbird and can read my email, but with some difficulty. I should say that I only want to collect email from my home server, running IMAP/dovecot, while I want to send email through my ISP (SMTP). I couldn't see any way to set this up properly with thunderbird, as it only asked me for one password, and I have a different username and password on my ISP account and on my local server. There seemed to be no facility to give a password for the IMAP account. Under "authentication" it simply said "Standard". I got an error message the ISP password I gave when I checked the IMAP account, and when I changed the password I got an error message for the ISP account. I was surprised that I was able nevertheless to read my email. Secondly, looking for advice on setting up thunderbird, all the online advice I saw suggested clicking on the Tools icon, presumably in the toolbar. But I have no such item in my thunderbird toolbar; the only items are Get Mail, Write, Chat, Address Book and Quick Filter. Thirdly, I couldn't see any simple way to delete email. Presumably there are some key-shortcuts somewhere, but if so I was unable to locate them. Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
