On 01/28/16 15:48, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
Before the community sighing begins.
Yes I've double, triple and quadruple checked that the setting to the server are
correct.
And googled umpteen hits starting with Account can not be verified - most of them
telling me GMail changed their login routine ...
No, it's not a Gmail account, it's a regular mail server.
Yes, other clients (Evolution, KMail) are able to connect and yes I've tried
accessing
my mail account through webmail.
I still get "Account can not be verified - are you sure your username or password
are
correct" in Thunderbird.
Any ideas before I apply to the loony bin?
You're talking about a connection to read your email as opposed to sending, correct?
IMAP
or POP3?
And what do you have set for "Connection Security" and "Authentication
Method"?
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In reality, some people should stick to running Windows and others should stay away from
computers altogether.