Can someone help me? I don’t want to lose my old email messages…
I had Thunderbird set up ith AVG antivirus. I managed to get Thunderbird working again now that i have uninstalled AVG, but I can only receive email, not send it.
Does anyone have a set of instructions for setting up an accout in Thunderbird? AVG had a weird way of being set up, because of a plugin. It is an smpt outgoing account…
I assume that the account already exists in Thunderbird since you say you can receive emails but not send.
In Thunderbird select the account in the left panel and then click on “View settings for this account” in the right panel.
Below the “Account settings for ” heading at the bottom of the Default Identity panel you should see:
Outgoing Server (SMTP): with a drop-down box probably containing “Use default server”
Let’s assume you do (if not then make a note of the server name).
Then going back to the left panel listing your accounts scroll to the bottom. At the bottom is:
Outgoing server (SMTP)
Select that entry and the right panel will now display a list of your SMTP servers (or just one - the default - if you only have one set up).
Select the default SMTP server (or the one whose name you noted above if you have more than one).
You need to make sure that the server name corresponds with the SMTP server name provided to you by your ISP and that the port is set to 25. The “Use secure connection” is usually set to “No” for standard SMTP.
Click on “OK” to save the settings.
You should be set to send emails.
By the way, I hope that you have made a complete removal of AVG, failure to do so could lead to problems.
Thanks, it was pretty tricky because TBird kept telling me I couldn’t change things… So i left things blank in frustration and it filled them in properly. That was nice!
As for your aside comment, i did fail to remove AVG first before installing Avast. I almost gave up, what with all of the problems, but I perservered and it is humming along nicely now. I hope Avast manages itself better than Norton did. I liked AVG but it didn’t catch everything. And the things it caught, it couldn’t fix.
Anyway, thank you for your help!
No doubt about it 8)
Detection of AVG dropped down very noticeable last years. It was a good antivirus…