Local Area Network

Which e-mail client are you using? Can't help you if you don't share that little detail. ;P

That's probably a wrong configuration from you, LAN connections do not cause problem with servers out of the blue, actually, that would be impossible, since your internet connection has nothing to do with whatever e-mail servers you might use :X

Oh, forget it, I just saw the whole "mozilla-thunderbird" thing. Sorry about that. :P

Anyway, I hope at least you could find my second paragraph useful. ;)

Now, let's talk about the real deal.

"Just check your Server Settings and enter pop3.live.com as your Server Name and 995 as the default port. Fill in your full Hotmail e-mail address at the User Name box and tick SSL in the Security Settings. For Mac and Linux Thunderbird users you might want to add 9950 as your default port because your OS will only allow ports above 1000 for some reason.

Next click on the Outgoing Server (SMTP) tab and enter smtp.live.com as your Server Name. The default port for SMTP is 25 but some Internet Service Provider had changed the default SMTP port to 587. Tick Use name and password and enter your full e-mail address once again at the User Name box. Also don't forget to select use TLS, if available. Again for Mac and Linux users, you might want to use 2500 or 5870 as your SMTP port."

This is an extract from this (http://afifplc.blogspot.com/2009/06/access-hotmail-via-pop-3-in-mozilla.html) Windows tutorial, but it's basically the same thing on Linux, but it should help.

Catarina:

Thank you for your response to my question. Unfortunately I am having great difficulty in communications. I am very new to UBUNTU and quite experienced in WINDOWS. I have both systems on my computre where I am able to send and receive mail in WINDOWS but not in UBUNTU. Consequently I am not aware of your answer while in UBUNTU untill I switch back to WINDOWS. I have a further complication in not remembering how I started this chain in UBUNTU , so I could not get back to your answer untill closing UBUNTU and then starting WINDOWS up again.

Your suggestion seems very simple "Just check your Server Settings and enter pop3.live.com as your Server Name and 995 as the default port. "

Just how do I do that? I know how in WINDOWS but not in UBUNTU.I did not even com across the question of "port #" in the original setup. Similarly I know not how to do the same for the SMTP nor do I know how to get to the "tabs" that you mention.

I really want this to work so I am not willing to throw up my hands and give up. I will await your answer in WINDOWS since I don't even know how to get to my question or your answer in UBUNTU. I thought that my question number was 81555 and trying to open 81655 did not work.

Thank you for trying

John

> To: rosingj@q.com
> From: <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Question #81655]: Local Area Network
> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 02:34:53 +0000
>
> Your question #81655 on mozilla-thunderbird in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+question/81655
>
> Status: Needs information => Answered
>
> Catarina proposed the following answer:
> Oh, forget it, I just saw the whole "mozilla-thunderbird" thing. Sorry
> about that. :P
>
> Anyway, I hope at least you could find my second paragraph useful. ;)
>
> Now, let's talk about the real deal.
>
> "Just check your Server Settings and enter pop3.live.com as your Server
> Name and 995 as the default port. Fill in your full Hotmail e-mail
> address at the User Name box and tick SSL in the Security Settings. For
> Mac and Linux Thunderbird users you might want to add 9950 as your
> default port because your OS will only allow ports above 1000 for some
> reason.
>
> Next click on the Outgoing Server (SMTP) tab and enter smtp.live.com as
> your Server Name. The default port for SMTP is 25 but some Internet
> Service Provider had changed the default SMTP port to 587. Tick Use name
> and password and enter your full e-mail address once again at the User
> Name box. Also don't forget to select use TLS, if available. Again for
> Mac and Linux users, you might want to use 2500 or 5870 as your SMTP
> port."
>
> This is an extract from this (http://afifplc.blogspot.com/2009/06
> /access-hotmail-via-pop-3-in-mozilla.html) Windows tutorial, but it's
> basically the same thing on Linux, but it should help.
>
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All you have to do is put

1. incoming server (pop)
2.outgoing server (smpt)
3.login name
4.password

All these information you can get from your ISP.Maybe you can see it in Outlook(I don´t use it for long time so I don´t know).OS is not important,but application is.It doesn´t make any difference if you want to configure same e-mail client(Thunderbird for example) in Windows or in Ubuntu.When I saw your question I tried for first time to configure Evolution ( and Thunderbird after years) and I made it.So,If I can do it I don´t see any reason why you should not do the same thing.Don´t give up!

Good luck!

John, there is a trick in launchpad. When you find a thread with your name at the top of any of the comments you will notice that your name is clickable. Try right-click to open in a new tab and see what's there. You should get a list of all the Answers you have been involved with. At the moment that's only questions you have asked but i have a feeling that you'll soon be answering things to help other people too, as we do. You can click on any of those questions to get back into the thread. When you have the list of questions look up at the top and click on "Overview" and then compare that with
https://launchpad.net/~tomdavies04
and other people's. I 'had' to modify the Wolvix logo a little bit to fit in with the surroundings a bit better but it's fairly faithful to the original. Some people use a photo and some people just don't ever change it.

There are often 1 or 2 things that force us back into Windows long after getting completely used to using Ubuntu or other distro for almost everything and then suddenly one day you stumble across an easy answer and achieve freedom so don't worry about this happening to you too. Sometimes, like this time, it might be such an annoying issue that it keeps you locked in Windows far too much but the trick is to just not wipe the Ubuntu out. Everything else is so nearly spot-on that your machine can happily keep both OSs for years. I still have Windows on mine but it's been so long since i last booted into it that i can't remember what i last went in there for. I think it was to check that i still could and to do updates and defrags lol. Don' feel pressured into completing this migration against a dead-line. Just boot back-and-forth as the need arises. In your position i would almost permanently be unhappily in Windows, it took me 6months before i was really ready for linux, some take years, some take days.

Regards from
Tom :)

Tom: Thank you
Zvacet: Thank you
Catarina: Thank you

Yes I am back into this 81655 thread with all your help. And having followed several suggestions I know that my incoming server is pop3.live.com (port 995) and it requires authentication; my outgoing server is smtp.live.com (port 25) and it requires SSL. I also know that IF I COULD GET TO A MODIFICATION SYSTEM that I would then make sure that these conditions are selected and marked.

When I click on the launcher I get to the Thunderbird mail system which then automatically tries to retrieve mail from the server pop3.live.com and it continues the attempt until it times out and giving me an "alert" to that effect. Then when I went to Edit, Account settings, server settings, then I was able to set the correct name and port# and mark SSL for the incoming server; then went to SMTP; Edit: there I applied the port 25 and marked SSL.

I then went to get mail and it asked for my password (which is so old that forgot it) Since that password is remembered in WINDOWS I haven't used it for years.

SO: I seem to have stumbled on to the modification system that allows me to enter the correct data except I now must go back to WINDOWS and see if I can retrieve my password. ANY SUGGESTIONS THERE ???

Regards
John

I found my mistake in WINDOWS (wrong user name and wrong password) after I corrected these I was able to download 249 old messages none of which have been read in UBUNTU.

Hurrah!! I have a working WINDOWS OS with email
                I have a working OBUNTU OS with email

and now my problem is solved.

If I have new questions I will initiate new questions. Thank you for your diligence in trying to help me.

WooooHoooo :))))
Congrats and regards from
Tom :)))

Hi :)

Have you been able to try the new Ubuntu 10.04 before it gets officially released?
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/testing/lucid/beta2
Trying it as a LiveCd or as an extra dual/multi-boot would be ideal. Developers and everyone are keen to try to iron out any problems before 10.04 gets officially released so you might find faster & more effective answers to your bug reports which would make 10.04 work better on your system for you

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)