287751 - when I check for new POP mail, a message comes up saying : "The connection was refused."

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[texassponge]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: 

When I click on the 'Get Mail' button to check for new POP Mail, a mesaage 
come sup that says "The connection was refused."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Mozilla Thunderbird.
2.Go to 'Tools'.
3.Click on 'Account Settings'.
4.Click 'Add Account'. (Unless there are no other accounts)
5.Make sure 'E-mail account' is selected.
6.Click 'Next'.
7.Type 'Joseph Guinn" in the 'Your name' box.
8.Type '[e-mail] in the 'Email Address' box.
9.Click 'Next'.
10.Make sure 'POP' is selected.
11.Type 'mail.lycos.com' in the 'Incoming Server' box.
12.Click 'Next'.
13.Type 'texassponge' in the 'Incoming User Name' box.
14.Click 'Next'.
15.Type 'Lycos Mail Account' in the 'Account Name' box.
16.Click 'Next' & verify the information.
17.Click 'Finish'.
18.Click 'OK' to exit Account Settings.
19.Click the 'Get Mail' button.



Actual Results:  
A dialog box came up and said "Could not connect to server mail.lycos.com; the 
connection was refused."

Expected Results:  
The software should have connected to the mail server & delivered my mail.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid

"11.Type 'mail.lycos.com' in the 'Incoming Server' box."
the server is wrong...

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 287805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***