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Thunderbird & .mac Mail - no go
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: LA, CA USA
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I downloaded Thunderbird yesterday - but can't figure out how or if it's possible to set it up for my .mac and yahoo mail accounts.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Yahoo only works if you paid for POP access I believe.
I thought .Mac was essentially just an IMAP account.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Cambridge UK
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Originally posted by solbo:
Yahoo only works if you paid for POP access I believe.
I thought .Mac was essentially just an IMAP account.
It is, I think you need to enter imap.mac.com (incoming) and smtp.mac.com (outgoing).
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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.mac has POP access, actually. The POP server you want to use is mail.mac.com
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2001
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I know it was IMAP when it was iTools.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Cambridge UK
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Originally posted by solbo:
I know it was IMAP when it was iTools.
Me too, but maybe less is more for $99 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Allston, MA, USA
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It's still IMAP.
-- Jason
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Yokohama, Japan
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I have my .mac account working perfectly in Thunderbird. To send mail I had to enable TLS (not SSL) in the Outgoing Server section of the Account Settings thing.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by Millennium:
.mac has POP access, actually. The POP server you want to use is mail.mac.com
.Mac supports both IMAP and POP.
I would STRONGLY recommend using IMAP, though, unless you want all your mail deleted the server when you check it.
Sure it's possible to set it so this DOESN'T happen, but it's not the default for most POP clients, and if you're not totally on the ball it will check and delete before you've changed the setting to "leave on server."
IMAP is just a ton better than POP -- especially in Mail.app which does a great job of caching.
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