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Mozilla Thunderbird SSL Account Definitions for verizon.net Email Accounts

Since it appears some people are having trouble getting the new SSL email definitions working, here are the account Settings I have been successfully using for four or five months. Maybe these will help some of you.

For privacy reasons I have blocked out my user name and email address.

Environment: Windows 7 Home Premium, Mozilla Thunderbird, Verizon FiOS

To repeat: These definitions work, have been working for months.

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Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9
Keller, TX 76248

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catmcgowan

You forgot to block out your User Name in the last image.

Justin46

@catmcgowan wrote:
You forgot to block out your User Name in the last image.

Thank you, yes I know I did, but the time for editing the post passed before I realized it. Plus that user name it is really a "throw-away" name, it is just one I have defined to do testing, etc, it is not my primary user name.

Again, thanks for the warning.

Edit: Thanks to ElizabethS the last image has been replaced.

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Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9
Keller, TX 76248

capelady1

Thanks, it did work - last night. This morning it didn't. Was able to send, but not receive. Had to change incoming Security Settings --> Conntection security to none to receive emails. Same for my other verizon account for which I use Eudora.

gasbag1

Elizabeth,

Thanks for the post regarding TBird & Verizon. I've been happily using Thunderbird for years to retrieve and send mail, now exclusively under Linux. I made the changes regarding SSL yesterday, all was well, but today only one of my accounts can access messages. All settings are identical, but there's one difference from your screen grabs. I've never used encrypted passwords to retrieve mail. I'll give it a shot, but it seems odd that one account, with passwords in the clear, will successfully download messages, but two others will not.

I must say I'm heartened that encrypting passwords will (might) get my incoming mail, but being able to send messages using an unencrypted password seems a bit of a security hole to me.

Thanks, again,

Geoff.

Fkaye

Thanks much--your instructions were right on. Any ideas for setting up connections on an IPAD 2 ?

eda1

THe account settings don't help unless we also know the proxy setting in Options (Network > Settings).

anonamouse1

Unfortunately, using exactly the settings you describe, I still get the message: Unable to connect - connection timed out. Is it possible that there is something on the Verizon side, in account or access information, that needs to be changed for those setting to work? I really want to be able to connect using linux (ubuntu/firefox/thunderbird anyway. Any advise on the possibility of that?

Justin46

@anonamouse wrote:
Unfortunately, using exactly the settings you describe, I still get the message: Unable to connect - connection timed out. Is it possible that there is something on the Verizon side, in account or access information, that needs to be changed for those setting to work? I really want to be able to connect using linux (ubuntu/firefox/thunderbird anyway. Any advise on the possibility of that?

I am not sure who you are talking to with the "you" in your post. But if it is me, I am the person that created the original post in this thread, and all I can tell you is that those definitions work without change in Thunderbird 11.0 on my Windows 7 system. I just tested again to make sure that something has not changed on the Verizon end.

Also, tonight I installed Thunderbird 3.1 (very old) on an old 10.04 level of Ubuntu Linux running under VirtualBox on Windows 7 and using the same definitions was able to successfully send and receive emails.

I don't know what else to tell you.

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Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9
Keller, TX 76248

Ikeepaparrot

I want to know, and have been searching for some time now, the settings for using Thunderbird email program. I absolutely despise Windows Live mail. Thunderbird is close to Outlook Express and I want to use this program. Sadly, Verizon seems to do everything it can to avoid giving any information or even speaking about how to set up Thunderbird to work in Verizon. Is there someone out there who has any idea at all about how to set up TBird to use in Verizon???

somegirl

@Ikeepaparrot wrote:
I want to know, and have been searching for some time now, the settings for using Thunderbird email program. I absolutely despise Windows Live mail. Thunderbird is close to Outlook Express and I want to use this program. Sadly, Verizon seems to do everything it can to avoid giving any information or even speaking about how to set up Thunderbird to work in Verizon. Is there someone out there who has any idea at all about how to set up TBird to use in Verizon???

Are you serious?! They're in the very first post in this thread.

Justin46

@somegirl wrote:
@Ikeepaparrot wrote:
I want to know, and have been searching for some time now, the settings for using Thunderbird email program. I absolutely despise Windows Live mail. Thunderbird is close to Outlook Express and I want to use this program. Sadly, Verizon seems to do everything it can to avoid giving any information or even speaking about how to set up Thunderbird to work in Verizon. Is there someone out there who has any idea at all about how to set up TBird to use in Verizon???
Are you serious?! They're in the very first post in this thread.

I too have been astounded (many times unfortunately) that people put a post in a thread, apparently without bothering to lot at any of the prior posts in the thread. But this one is so astounding that it make me go back and take a look at my own settings. I have this setting:

But I now wonder if some people, maybe lots or most, have it set for the "newest first", and then they just add a post to the topic without scrolling down to see the prior posts? If that is the case, maybe Verizon should consider removing this option, make it always "oldest first", and some of this lack of reading the entire thread might disappear?

Just a thought.....

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Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9
Keller, TX 76248

Ikeepaparrot

Thank you so much for your kind post. I guess it may be hard to see some of the posts with one eye, so I beg your forgiveness for not seeing what I should have. Still, I am uable to make TBird work.

Ikeepaparrot

Again, my apologies for not being savvy about how this board works. Apparently I have annoyed several of you. Such a shame as I had hoped to find an answer to my continuing problem with Verizon and TBird. I will not post again.

somegirl

@Ikeepaparrot wrote:
Thank you so much for your kind post. I guess it may be hard to see some of the posts with one eye, so I beg your forgiveness for not seeing what I should have. Still, I am uable to make TBird work.

Now I'm confused. Did you see the initial post or not? Seems like you are trying to say that you tried those settings and they didn't work. (If so, you have a very roundabout way of doing it.)

If that's the case, then we need to troubleshoot the issue with your client, not provide the settings.

lilhighway

Incoming/Outgoing Mail Server Settings
Incoming Mail Server (POP3)	pop.verizon.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)	smtp.verizon.net
Incoming/Outgoing Mail Server Port Settings
Incoming Mail Server (POP3) Port	995
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) Port	465

Quick Links
Auto Set Up your Email Account GOOD JOB VERIZON LOL
Add an Additional Email Account

MRQUINN

Well after playing with this for an hour and a half -Should bill Verizon- I have gooten the settings to work even cleared the issue with Anti virus which has a problem with the certificate since antivirus is just 2 months old seems odd.

But life is not all sweetness and honey now to receive or send email thunderbird has me enter my pass word manually each and every operation. That is for the birds is their a way around that?

I bill 150.00 an hour who at verizon gets the bill?

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