Thunderbird Can't Handle Similar E-mail/RSS Accounts!
Randy & Grace
I set up two e-mail accounts that begin with the same prefix
(......@), and have similar but different suffixes (@.......). No
matter what, Thunderbird morphs both accounts into either one or the
other, but will not create two distinct accounts.
I set up two Twitter RSS feeds (1) http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/myfeed.rss;
2) http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/myotherfeed.rss). No
matter what, Thunderbird morphs them into the same feed, with the same
title for the feed, and will only load the articles for that one feed,
even though it retains the correct distinction in the feed URL!
It just can't handle, and consistently morphs both accounts into
either one or the other, but not both!
Ben Bucksch
> I set up two e-mail accounts that begin with the same prefix
> (......@), and have similar but different suffixes (@.......). No
> matter what, Thunderbird morphs both accounts into either one or the
> other, but will not create two distinct accounts.
Did you ever change the hostname (suffix)? TB remembers the username and
hostname which you created the account with originally, even if you
change it.
Randy & Grace
I entered and re-entered the correct hostname/suffixes (different but
similar) for both accounts on the e-mail, but no avail. It makes both
accounts the same, every time.
With the RSS feeds, they both have the same domain (http:/
twitter.com....), but they have different endings (...user1, user2).
Again, even though it displays as the correct URL in the manage
subscriptions, it draws in the name of the other similar feed, and the
posts it draws in are from the first feed, not the second. TB makes
them the same every time. Frustrating.
Ben Bucksch
> I entered and re-entered the correct hostname/suffixes (different but
> similar) for both accounts on the e-mail, but no avail.
You didn't understand: You may need to delete and re-create the account,
not just change the username and hostname.
I recommend you try it in a new "Profile" (start thunderbird.exe -P), to
start fresh. If you have it working there, you know that it works and
can fix your main profile.
Randy & Grace
> On 06.02.2010 00:22, Randy wrote:
> > I entered and re-entered the correct hostname/suffixes (different but
> > similar) for both accounts on the e-mail, but no avail.
>
> You didn't understand: You may need to delete and re-create the account,
> not just change the username and hostname.
Yes, I had already deleted the accounts and started from scratch
several times. It still does the same thing.
> I recommend you try it in a new "Profile" (start thunderbird.exe -P), to
> start fresh. If you have it working there, you know that it works and
> can fix your main profile.
I'll try that. Thanks for the tip.
Randy & Grace
Ok, tried it with a new profile. It did the same thing, except in
this case, if I delete the newly added RSS feed, then restart the
program, then re-enter the feed, it works. Have to restart the
program every time before entering the new but similar RSS feeds.
Haven't tried the similar e-mail accounts yet.
Randy & Grace
Think I spoke too soon. What I'm noticing that happens now with the
RSS feeds, is that when I select a specific RSS feed (in this case,
one of several Twitter feeds) to get new messages for it, it asks me
to authenticate with username and password _one_ time only. From then
on, whenever it draws in articles it brings them in _only_ from the
feed associated with the Username and Password I first entered, not
from the feed associated with the folder I'm clicking to update.
However, it goes ahead and files the articles in the folder I'm
clicking to update, regardless, mingling them together with feeds from
other sources.