Got it - give me a few minutes.

Blue

Check your 'My Home' and there should be a PM there, and then I think we better get of this thread before we get thrown off

Blue

Edited by deleted (Fri 01-Jun-07 12:23:52)

Might be an idea to go back into your post and edit your email addy m8 before it gets used to spam you to death

Too late when you posted this, the limit is 12 hours. Thought of suggesting the same earlier, but someone had already pointed out he shouldn't have posted it - though I suppose he didn't realise he could edit it out . Google or a trawler probably already had it anyway.

Though I suppose he could pm seb to remove it even now.

Isn't the Internet a nice friendly place.

"are Purple Cloud the best domain company". They don't seem to be sharks, some of the others scare me. They all actually register through the UK registration authority Nominet anyway, but if you try to go to Nominet direct it costs

I found this thread very interesting. I would like to have a third party email account ahead of ditching Orange once my contract is up, but I don't wont to shell out on a domain etc and then find that there are problems receiving some emails using my Mozilla Thunderbird email application.

The reason I am a bit hesitant, is that as a test, I have been experimenting with Google mail.

With Thunderbird, I can receive test emails sent using my Orange address to my Google mail address, and vice versa, but test emails sent from my Google mail address to my Google mail address aren't delivered back to my Thunderbird inbox. 'Get mail' shows 'no new messages on the server' - even though, if I log on to my Google mail account it appears in the intray.

I could just pick up emails from the host server, but with Thunderbird, it is very handy having everything (emails, mail filters, RSS feeds, newsgroups) in one place. Does having a 3rd party email provider mean loosing this convenience? - or is the above problem specific to Google - one that could be tweaked?

Very grateful for any comments on this.

I use Thunderbird with gmail (as well as my own domain mail server) and can send and receive without problems. I suspect one of your settings may be wrong.

As john2007 says, your issue will be with Thunderbird setting as leased domains with a decent provider offer full POP3 and SMTP capability which Thunderbird is fully conversant with.

Go on, give it a go

Blue

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I could just pick up emails from the host server, but with Thunderbird, it is very handy having everything (emails, mail filters, RSS feeds, newsgroups) in one place. Does having a 3rd party email provider mean loosing this convenience?

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No it doesn't. I have several domains. One has emails forwarded to my Gmail account and picked up from there by Thunderbird, the other just has Thunderbird picking up the emails direct from the host server.

Thanks for the reassurance!!! Have now tinkered, got it working AND signed on to Purple Cloud. Seems brilliant! Thanks a mil for the info!!!