kasey6465

I am a new user of both Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird and simply love both of them. However, I have a two issues with Thunderbird I can not seem to resolve.

Since I am trying to set up both my Gmail and AOL email accounts up within Thunderbird, I have tried to add the extension Buttons! (select SMTP) to my Thunderbird software. I open Tools/extensions/Get More Extensions. That seems to put me into Firefox and when I try to install an extension, it goes into the Firefox software. How can I get the extension Buttons! into my Thunderbird software so that I can manage the SMTP servers.

As I mentioned earlier, I am trying to be able to manage both email accounts thru Thunderbird. I have managed to get the Gmail account to work properly but simply cannot get the AOL account to work. I click on the Get Mail button and then on the AOL Mail. It seems as though it is working but nothing seems to happen. The message on the bottom bar states that it is downloading 1 of 10 messages. This goes on for several minutes but nothing seems to change. I hit cancel. I am using the imap.aol.com/port 143 as my incoming server. However, I did try using both the Gmail outgoing server (smtp.gmail.com/port 467) which works with the Gmail account and the AOL outgoing server (smtp.aol.com/port 587) which does NOT work with Gmail.

This is why I thought the Buttons! extensions might work for me. That way I could set up both outgoing servers and use the proper one for each email account.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix these problems? I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Kasey

Dell Inspiron 4100, P III, 1 Ghz, 256 RAM, XP Home, ISP/AOL, 56k dial-up

BlazingFire456

I don't think "AOHELL" supports 3rd party POP programs at all. But I could always be wrong. But I know I could never do it when I was on AOL. It only let me use it's own pop box and web mail.