Joan Smith wrote: > Have just installed Thunderbird but when I wanted to contact them, because > of a problem in installing a dictionary, I received the following > > "The message could not be sent as no sender was specified. Please check your > News Account Configuration" > > I have checked this and it seems to be correct, but am obviously missing > something. > Please could some kind person help a very confused member? > Joan. > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Hi Joan; I use Thunderbird and really like it. I'm not an expert but a heavy user. I have never heard of your message, but a search of mozilla.org gave me this link which helps with 'cannot send email' problems. Maybe there's something here to help you. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cannot_send_mail Please let us know what happens. -- Enjoy the Search! Thayne

Thank you so much for your helpful reply and the link to the website. On reading it I suspect that I have not configured Thunderbird correctly in the first place and that I also need to follow the instructions for "Outgoing mail settings". Unfortunately I am not going to be able to do this for a bit as life is very hectic and I am also struggling with another problem - my server will not accept attachments, although it has done so without any problems up to now! Life is never simple is it! I just wanted you to know how grateful I am for your reply and to tell you that I will be following it up as soon as time permits. Best wishes, Joan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "tcurtisGen" <tcurtisgen@gmail.com> To: <gen-comp-tips@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Thunderbird > Joan Smith wrote: >> Have just installed Thunderbird but when I wanted to contact them, >> because >> of a problem in installing a dictionary, I received the following >> >> "The message could not be sent as no sender was specified. Please check >> your >> News Account Configuration" >> >> I have checked this and it seems to be correct, but am obviously missing >> something. >> Please could some kind person help a very confused member? >> Joan. >> >> -------------------------------------- >> Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at >> gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > Hi Joan; > I use Thunderbird and really like it. I'm not an expert but a heavy user. > > I have never heard of your message, but a search of mozilla.org gave me > this link which helps with 'cannot send email' problems. Maybe there's > something here to help you. > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cannot_send_mail > > Please let us know what happens. > > > -- > Enjoy the Search! > Thayne > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message