On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Mike Williams wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Michael Hennebry
<hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:11 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> Alas still no go.
>>> Now it asks me for a password, but it won't take it.
You probably have something set wrong on your end. Double check the
server names, ports, and authentication.
The question is what?
The server names I cut and pasted.
The port numbers are right.
The options for authenticationn are password
and things I'd never heard or read about.
For the masochists, the data from which I am working is here:
http://www.ndsu.edu/its/help/index/mobile_devices/configuration/
I finally managed to read the "error box" from
when clicked on "Check for supported types":
"Querying server for list of suported authentication mechanisms."
I had to do a lot of fast clicking.
If you can't get Evolution to play, try Thunderbird. With
either
program, you will have to enter your password at least once and you
Is there a reason to expect Thunderbird to do better?
I have mmajor difficulties putting much effort
into something I expect not to work.
At my school we switched to microsoft for email a while ago and
there
are two ways that I know of that work.
The approach I took, since I do not care for outlook and I like gmail,
was to use the web access to login to my email MS account and setup
forwarding, so that all of my school email gets forwarded to my gmail
I've considered similar, but there are two problems:
The documentation seems to imply that if I do that,
I will lose the mail already in my inbox.
The described mechanism seems not to bethere.
If you don't want use gmail then Thunderbird will work. A
professor
Gawd I hope so.
that I work for uses Thunderbird on his home system and it works
fine.
As was mentioned in the discussion about Evolution you have to make
sure you check the box for TLS and get the server settings right.
One nice thing about using Thunderbird is that your messages get
downloaded to your system so you can still get to the downloaded
I'd thought that all e-mail clients had that as an option.
No?
Good luck,
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."