OT Thunderbird & Eternal september help sought

[Bob Minchin]

I have an account with ES and have my username and password to hand.

For various reasons I want to change my newsreader and Thunderbird seems an oft suggested reader.

I have installed version 52.9.1(32 bit) being the latest version that still supports XP.

I have entered the requested data for ES server name etc and it has auto selected port 119 and everything about the set up looks about the same as with my previous newsreader (Seamonkey)

At no stage has it asked for username and password. Is this right??

When I try to subscribe to groups, the window does not load up with all the ES supported groups and hitting Refresh does not do anything either.

All I can see is a few ES related groups which suggests that it has connected to ES to get those.

Please can someone point me in the direction to get the the rest of the NG heirarchy.

TIA

Bob

[GB]

You do need to sign in, and TB is obscure about doing it. Try tools ... options ... security ... passwords.

It took me 5 minutes to find that, and I've set up ES previously.

HTH

[T i m]

I think that's the bit you can see without authentication Bob.

On my TB / XP (here) I've got:

My name in the name bit (as registered from memory)

Server name: news.eternal-september.org

Port 119 as you say.

Secure connection. (off)

Always request authentication when connecting to the server (on)

Mind you, this is TB V0.9. ;-)

A some point it asked me to supply my registered username and password which TB saved.

Cheers, T i m

[Another Dave]

Have you checked the "Always request authentication when connecting to this server" box on the Server Settings tab for ES?

Another Dave

[Bob Minchin]

Hi GB That all sounded so promising but .....

In my version there is no "option" under tools but the menu view has an "options" section and a security tab but that just leads to harvesting passwords for sites you visit (seems like it thinks it is a browser?) Not an option to enter passwords. There are no "add" or "new" buttons

The help section does not seem to either.

Are you on ver 52?

Bob

[Andy Burns]

You need to tick the "force authentication" option.

[Bob Minchin]

Dave & Tim Thank you both. Requesting authentication is the magic spell that I needed Bob

[Bob Minchin]

Thanks Andy I'm now "in" and this reply is coming via TB/ES

Bob

[Andy Burns]

Hopefully not that's unsupported, v64.4.0 is latest.

[John Rumm]

Might be worth adding a note on the end of the setup for TB section here:

(I expect the instructions as shown there only work for groups without a password)

[GB]

Ah, that seems to be your problem then. :)

This is a 32 bit windows PC and I'm on version 60.4

[Andrew]

Tools->options->security should then show four tabs, one of which is passwords, but it is not the screen that shows initially when you select security. You need to select it.