Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 Help

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TechCom0018

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I just recently upgraded to Thunderbird 2.0 and now I can't send e-mails from my Yahoo, Hotmail, and School e-mail accounts, only my AOL e-mail account work. I need help on what happened and how to fix it. Here's the Sent Message Error message I get for all of my Yahoo, Hotmail, and School e-mail accounts:

"The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP sever smtp.yahoo.com failed. The sever may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your SMTP server setting is correct and try again, or else contact your network administrator".
 
If you have Windows installed you should be able to import the settings from Outlook Express. You will still have to manually configure some things and re-enter ISP user name/password information.
 
PC eye said:
If you have Windows installed you should be able to import the settings from Outlook Express. You will still have to manually configure some things and re-enter ISP user name/password information.
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Thanks PC eye, but I never used Outlook Express, I heard it was the worse e-mailing program ever. Mozilla Thunderbird is my first and only e-mailing program ever. I first downloaded Thunderbird 1.5 about 6 months ago and it was working just fine, but when I upgraded to Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 I couldn't send e-mail my Yahoo, Hotmail, and School e-mail accounts, as stated before in my first posting. So if anybody can help me out I would appreciate it.
 
You are now going to have to configure everything manually all over again if you didn't backup the setting on 1.5 earlier. Just like you would for 1.5 take each step one at a time to first setup the ISP information to get Thunderbird online. From there you have to import the settings for the online accounts. You can also log in while online to send email out as well as review anything that came in that way. That helps oif you are on another system or traveling where you wouldn't choose the remember user name/password information like at a public terminal(school, library), work, someone else's home system, etc.
 
I can't even uninstall Thunderbird because Mozilla Thunderbird has some backup so that if you uninstall and reinstall Thunderbird it keeps your settings. So if you or any else can help my I would REALLY appreciate it.
 
You can locate the backup files created by FireFox under your user name in the DocumentsandSettings folder. Take a look at the image here to see it easy it is to find and delete those. http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/4397/thunderbirdbackupnk5.jpg

Once you uninstall Thunderbird you delete the remaining files and folders before a fresh install. That backups profiles in the same manner that FireFox does there for the most part. Once you have those removed you simply go for a fresh install instead of the previous attempt to upgrade to a newer version.
 
I have my Thunderbird 2.0 working now :D:D:D. Thank you soooo much PC eye for help me out. The problem was that I didn't put my domain name in the right places and I forgot the add the localhost in the outgoing mail.
 
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