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There are many instructions on the web about the Thunderbird. Generally speaking, the whole process was a breeze.
I experienced some problems while setting up Thunderbird to get email from Yahoo mail server. I searched from several different places to get the problem solved. I would like to write down the solutions I used. Hope it helps someone.


1.Problem:
“Could not connet to server localhost; the connections was refused”
Reason: Some OS's block ports below 1024
like Lunix (Ubuntu is just a flavor of Lunix)
Solution:
Tools – Add ons – WebMail – Preferances
Change the pop server port to 1100, smpt server port to 1200 (you can alos try some other number which is greater than 1024)
Go to Aaccount Settings -- Outgoing Server(SMTP) –Webmail localhost
to edit the SMTP accordingly.
2.Problem:
“Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server localhost responded: negative vibes from xxxx@yahoo.com”

or keep asking password again and again

Solution:
Tools -- Add ons – webMainl-Yahoo 1.4.2 -- Preferences
select “BETA website”

3.“Connection to server localhost timed out.”

Will add when I have time.