Thunderbird is go...
An odd thing just happened. A while back I thought I'd shove two fingers up to Microsoft and stop using their illegal software that I'd ripped off1 a while back ("that'll teach 'em", I thought). So I uninstalled Micro$oft Office and got a nice copy of OpenOffice 2.something.
Anyway, I imported all the Outlook stuff into Thunderbird. It all worked beautifully (apart from the fact that I can't get mail merge to merge labels using a CSV file) and merrily got on with typing e-mails. Everything was lovely, except that when I pressed "Send" it kept coming up with the "Please enter password" box and then failed to "SMTP" correctly. If I repeatedly pressed "Send" eventually it would send the mail without me having entered anything. It was completely random. Sometimes it would work, more often than not, I would have to have about 10 attempts to send.
The "Outgoing Server" setting was just fine, it had my account name in it and everything.
I was at the point of going back to Outlook, but for some really strange reason, I decided to remove the username from the form by un-checking the "Use name and password" check box.
Now it works. First time, every time.
Why?
1Not really, I bought a very old copy a long time ago and thought it was time to upgrade. Hey ho, can't admit to piracy now can I?
Anyway, I imported all the Outlook stuff into Thunderbird. It all worked beautifully (apart from the fact that I can't get mail merge to merge labels using a CSV file) and merrily got on with typing e-mails. Everything was lovely, except that when I pressed "Send" it kept coming up with the "Please enter password" box and then failed to "SMTP" correctly. If I repeatedly pressed "Send" eventually it would send the mail without me having entered anything. It was completely random. Sometimes it would work, more often than not, I would have to have about 10 attempts to send.
The "Outgoing Server" setting was just fine, it had my account name in it and everything.
I was at the point of going back to Outlook, but for some really strange reason, I decided to remove the username from the form by un-checking the "Use name and password" check box.
Now it works. First time, every time.
Why?
1Not really, I bought a very old copy a long time ago and thought it was time to upgrade. Hey ho, can't admit to piracy now can I?
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