Re: automatic helpers which really suck!

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On 12/13/2012 01:07 PM, François Patte wrote:
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Bonjour,

I installed f-17 and wanted to set my mail with thunderbird.

New account, name, mail address, smtp.... *immediately* thunderbird
helper goes on the web to check my email server and don't find it! Why?
I really don't know: this mail address and server has been in service
for years now (and I'm using it to send this mail).... I can ping it, I
can dig it...

And now, I am stuck: I cannot have my mail because thunderbird try to
help me, as if I was so stupid that I cannot know my own email address!

I really don't understand what is the goal of this kind of help, even if
I make a mistake while I give my emeil server address, doomsday won't come!

The result is: I cannot configure my mail because someone has thought
that this automatic check will help people. Stupid!

I agree that the automatic check is silly, especially when you are not at all allowed to manually add an account.

I did face a similar issue when configuring Thunderbird for my account. If you are using an internal mail server of your University, and communicate over SSL, the issue could be similar to mine. You need to add the local CA authority certificate, before trying to add the account.

- Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)


Regards
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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