How do I get past this when configuring an account in Thunderbird? I want to have separate SMTP and IMAP servers. So far I've found Thunderbird much harder to use and configure than Outlook Express.
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As requested,
It ended up corrupting my email accounts. I ended up with two accounts with the same name, and could not change the name or delete them! I had to manually edit prefs.js and delete anything new. I tried it again and not sure at which point, but it silently added an account in Tools > Account Settings. Then I was able to tweak it from there.
What worked for me was what I found in another forum: it happens when you configure your second account and choose to use the same SMTP server you already configured for the first.
Try configuring a new SMTP server with the same parameters as the existing one.
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go to advanced, and configure manually does it do the same thing?