anyone help me with sympatico and thunderbird

[hamjam]

I have lost the ability to post /reply on my email thunderbird XP pro 3 I have been able to get some messages but have not been able to send any on my 'puter and on SWMBO's as well after reading the horse exhaust from Bell and talking to someone very far away stating over and over "we dont support thunderbird " I set the account up according to their page and still nothing ,BUT i can send from SWMBO's now ,er ,, sometimes any one have an Idea what I need to do other than get rid of Bell
and can someone post this on the Plus list for me as well
thanks
frustrated
Jim

[CatatonicBug]

Not sure exactly what your issue is, but I did find this link to instructions on setting up Thunderbird. Who is your email provider (gmail, yahoo, MSN, etc.)?

[Ivan]

You are going to need your:
email address
password
smtp server name, like smtp.cox.central.net
pop server name, like pop.cox.central.net

Now here's the hitch, sometimes thunderbird doesn't like the URL in anything but the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx format, so you may need to open a command window and ping your servers to resolve the IP address and enter that instead.

I finally just went with gmail, since cox is such a screwy mail server, and they won't let you send email from an ip that is not on their range, I.E. I can't send email from my sprint phone through my cox email address. Gmail is pretty decent, and if you have the email and password, you can set it up to get the email from your other account until you get totally switched. I can still get email on my cox account, and it shows up in my gmail.

Anyway, hope you find some help in that random rambling/