02-01-19 11:39 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Thunderbird & XP
Howdy! Mark,

 ml> @MSGID: 

 ml>  On 2019 Jan 31 22:48:00, you wrote to All:

 EV> Occasionally I will have a problem after I press the Get Messages button.

 ml> what problem? what is the exact message?

"failed to connect to server".

 EV> Today it happened again and so far it still says failed to connect to
 EV> server every time I tried to Get Email.

 EV> I spent some time at Mozilla Support reading page after page but couldn't
 EV> find a solution.

 ml> sounds like the server is down or it is rejecting your connection
 ml> method in your tbird settings for that email server... maybe they don't
 ml> like plain cleartext POP3 any more and are requiring secure sessions?
 ml> your ISP would have more information if that's the case...

I have TB set for POP with a Secure Connection.

As I told Kurt, it worked this morning and also tonight when I checked for
Email.

Thanks for the reply.


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