Stinkin' Windows 7 and Thunderbird

[Rick F]

See if this link will help:

Importing Contacts in Mozilla Thunderbird

[tubaguy9]

I think the biggest difficulty you'll have is that the Windows Live Mail and the Address book are separate programs in Windows 7.

[tubaguy9]

are you sure about it not recognizing it? I know Outlook from Office has the SMTP possibility. Are you sure you're not missing an option that it has of not automatically finding the sending and receiving line?

[Chuck Jackson]

What's the word...??

Allow me:

THUNDERBIRD

Given Schleppies life-long sobriety, he probably didn't get it.

Chuck"who has had Thunderbird and is still trying to get the taste out of his mouth 30 years later"Jackson

[Rick Denney]

I just had another major problem come up. Thunderbird doesn't recognize my outgoing smtp address, hence, no outgoing e-mails. This, to me, a royal pain doth give.

That's probably not Thunderbird, but your ISP. Is the outgoing SMTP address the one provided by your ISP? If not, your ISP is probably trapping it--most ISPs don't allow people on their networks to use someone else's SMTP server, as a means of curbing spammers.

If this is the problem, you have two alternatives: 1.) use your ISP's required outgoing SMTP server. It doesn't really matter what SMTP server you use--all it's doing is throwing your email out into the internet cloud.

2.) use an authenticated SMTP server that bypasses the ISP's trap. I'm able to use Earthlink's authenticated SMTP server from anywhere, even hotel networks that trap email. Email clients will require you to program your user name and password to use an authenticated server.

I can't imagine an email client that does not allow you to identify your SMTP server. But I can sure imagine (and see all the time) an ISP that forces you to user their server.

Rick "been there, done that" Denney

[tbn.al]

so Schleppie,

What's the word...??

Try this link bloke. It seems like a lifetime since I last heard it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_8Zksi ... re=related" target="_blank" target="_blank