Webmail setup problem in Thunderbird - Hotmail and Yahoo setup
 

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As I needed my Free Hotmail and Yahoo mail to work in Thunderbird I installed the webmail, hotmail and yahoo extensions. I set them up as per the instruction in webmail site.

Now the problem is the extension is not working. Must be I have made some error in setting things up.

I am getting "Sending of username did not succeed. Mail server localhost responded: yahoo.com is a unsupported domain".

My setup details are :
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The details are
Webmail - 1.2.1 (latest)
Webmail Hotmail - 1.2.0 (latest)
Webmail Yahoo - 1.2.0 (latest)

All the three extensions are running.

For Webmail my settings are :
Pop : 1111
SMTP : 1112
IMAP : 1027
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=> All three running (Green light is on). But when I click the Domain tab in Webmail Options, there is no domain showing up.

=> In the Hotmail and Yahoo options also I can see the list of domains but when clicking on Accounts tab it says "No Hotmail Accounts found" or "No Yahoo Accounts found".

=> I have setup my Yahoo and Homail accounts as "Webmail" in the type of accounts. I chose "Email account" to start with, but I was getting "Could not connect to server localhost, connection refused".

Please help me.

First of all I do not think I can solve your problem with Thunderbird webmail as I never even new it existed until I read your post. However, I access my Yahoo account via Thunderbird as a normal POP account.
POP3 setting is pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk
SMTP is smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for your suggestions. I tried with the settings that is working with you. But I believe the difference is for FREE accounts (which I am using) direct POP3 access is off for quite sometime now. So webmail extension is just a workaround.

May be there are some other workarounds which I am not aware off.

Thanks.

That is true for Hotmail but for Yahoo you can definately use this method even with the free service.

Take a look here:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mai...op/pop-08.html
It is the setup for Outlook Express but it is basically the same.

I tried again with the settings you have provided. It didn't worked. As my domain is yahoo.com may be that is the reason it is not working.

Anyway in the meantime I have found some other extension which is working fine with yahoo. Presently I am facing problem to download the Hotmail. May be that will also be solved.

Thanks for your suggestions.

I had tried the Webmail extension many months ago, and couldn't get it working - so I installed Freepops, which worked fine (for yahoo; I don't have a Hotmail account, so I can't vouch for it.)

However, a recent upgrade to F7 broke Freepops, so I reinstalled Webmail, and it now works....

I know this doesn't help you with your Webmail issue, but if you haven't already tried Freepops, you may have some success.

Thanks for your suggestions mrclisdue. In fact I have also found Freepops and it is working fine for me for the yahoo accounts. But for Hotmail I don't know why it is not working. I would have preferred the webmail extension because it seemed to be a perfect solution, but as the solutions is yet to come so in the meantime Freepops is working great.

Thanks again for your reply.

How to get WebMail to work
 

I recently found that the one change to make to make WebMail work is by making the username "something@yahoo.com" and not simply "something" as per the default instructions.
This is how i backup Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL all to Gmail. And then backup a single Gmail account once a month.

Dan
www.upgradetogeek.com