Thunderbird on Gatesware + Sympatico DSL

[Stephen Allen]

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bob wrote:
> Not everyone in my circle listens to my pitch about the merits of going 
> Linux.     The best I can do with some of them is to pitch the merits of FTO 
> (Firefox/Thunderbird/Open Office).
> 
> My brother has Gatesware XP + Sympatico DSL.     Firefox went on without 
> incident.      Thunderbird seems to install just fine and pickup all the 
> Outlook settings and address book etc.      It simply refuses to connect to 
> the Sympatico email servers.
> 
> Any ideas.

FWIU Sympatico is transitioning all it's users to the hotmail servers
(pophm.sympatico.ca & smtphm.sympatico.ca) and requires SSL to connect using
port 25 for SMTP and 995 for POP.

I haven't tried using TBird for Sympatico, but those are the settings I used in
Outlook.

- --
(On going to war over religion:) "You're basically killing each other
to see who's got the better imaginary friend."           -- Rich Jeni
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