Re: Thunderbird causing legal problems

Mad Viking wrote:

> Yes, you read that right.  This festering pile of @#$%@#$ of an email 
> program in less than five minutes just royally screwed up my life. 
> After having routinely changed the password on my college email account, 
> instead of doing what a reasonable email client does under the 
> circumstances, namely perhaps asking me if my password has changed after 
> at most, two failed logins, Thunderbird cheerfully spammed the server a 
> total of at LEAST 30 (I lost count by then, it may have been as high as 
> 70) times with rapid login requests with the old password before  it 
> glibly gave me the option to change it.  By then the main server at my 
> college had already blocked my IP and automatically filed an incident 
> report with my ISP.. now it looks like I'm going to lose my cable 
> account, and face disciplinary action at my school because this 
> worthless piece of junk can't handle something as simplistic as a CHANGE 
> IN @#%@%@#%ING EMAIL PASSWORD!!!
> 
> that's IT.. from now on I might as well use OUTLOOK, it SUCKS LESS THAN 
> THUNDERBIRD DOES!!
> 
> thank you, that is all.

I just reset a mail password on the server, grabbed mail with 
Thunderbird and the whole thing was over in 16 packets. That's packets, 
not retries. It asked for a new password once, I entered it and that was 
all. Maybe you need to work with your mail admin people as this doesn't 
look like a Thunderbird problem.

-- 
Pete.

"You can't fight in here....this is the War Room!!" -  President Muckley 
(Peter Sellers)