From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC89D1388F4 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 23:43:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7C1BE04C8; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 23:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm25-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm25-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.236.191]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30B27E0484 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 23:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.94.237.198] by nm25.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Feb 2013 23:43:09 -0000 Received: from [98.139.244.49] by tm9.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Feb 2013 23:43:09 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp111.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Feb 2013 23:43:09 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 342708.56887.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: IrF8fmgVM1lDZDRQOk82aXHnXAW3S8.85KVAzYcUh.NvvLl bnyuKIZZu0L0gxJs4rpOf42Pm0hHSifJTtDlPz0nBymTjiwApW3TpSgd1FcB WAj2DjrvMitNO1VfHBWjeZxKdY3KQNSPiPAQAZcCy9X6ctDfWe0rC9KC2qe9 j1zn.HozIaQRNhycfQz9uFaV709mUzDOzIKlSlf6vt7tSxibqf1FjLdkbOe8 mLtxEZyulJn00ihh7M0ix5vkkiutnTt_f5ys_GLof4pRgA5GCN7OP4onHIzh cbGzW0ZzR1t268ro47mWHDi1ZTnWsIt0v.ebQsq5ME0duvbqMir7OtNYowHD oS8V_RUECPzE42QVyzZPhuX6eEO1lPrlsCb8SVdes.epXmtALzsaWy19.I8T cbF62VYK4TpQMLYxF5f.w6axAbcBNB3t1nClnaS8kdh4ENIiZiWeQ8pA8JbZ uY9oIFQu.emCTVKBAZ6UYo.uKSC9QO3Po91LssylMNW.Tr5fciXEczxOTjtB SAALZgYV9qBpsxlBYqG9e0tup7w-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: oM3WcDSswBC7zv73TQKEsi7eAZ0- Received: from [192.168.1.2] (w41ter@69.234.194.122 with plain) by smtp111.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 07 Feb 2013 15:43:09 -0800 PST Message-ID: <51143C0D.7000500@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:43:09 -0800 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20130117 Thunderbird/19.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating accounts in Thunderbird References: <510E4F56.1080703@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <510E4F56.1080703@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ea39f81a-f10b-44cb-8461-1d5ba579f757 X-Archives-Hash: 91f6dcd31362677ffbdc4b7f4e9de5af On 02/03/2013 03:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > How do I get Thunderbird to act like software and not assume it knows > better than I do? Same way you get your wife to do what you want :) The confusing part about thunderbird account creation is that there's more than one way to create a new account, and they are not equivalent, not by a country kilometer (yes, I consider that bug, or maybe a very stupid feature). F'rinstance, how do you create a new nntp account? IIRC you can't if you're using tbird for the first time. I think the only way to do it is *after* you've already set up a working email account, then click on Edit::Account Settings and look all the way to the bottom of the list box on the left to the button marked "Account Actions". I'm no longer using the gentoo ebuild for thunderbird; instead I'm using the beta-test builds from ftp.mozilla.org. (Hm, now that I stop to think about why I do that, I realize that it's a really dumb thing to do because I gave up filing thunderbird bug reports about two years ago because none of my bugs ever got fixed.) So, I dunno if I've helped you but you've convinced me to go back to using thunderbird-stable. Thanks Alan!