On 01/28/16 16:43, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 15:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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?
Well yes, IMAP and it's in the setup wizard thingy.
> And what do you have set for "Connection Security" and
> "Authentication Method"?
STARTTLS and Password.
Have you tried SSL/TLS instead?
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