Earlier on I decided to add my new live mail account to Thunderbird. All went well until I clicked Get Mail
; shortly after, an error message popped up helpfully informing me that:
[…] live.co.uk is a unsupported domain.
A quick google search on that text didn’t turn up anything directly useful, but did remind me that the Hotmail add-on has options for selecting between the old and new version’s connection method. Unfortunately, that was correctly set for Hotmail Live (New website)
, but when I looked in Webmail‘s options I noticed a Domain
tab that listed, appropriately enough, the supported domains. Hotmail and MSN had .co.uk
entries but there was nothing for live.co.uk and no obvious way to add a custom entry.
Haha! A chance for some extension hacking
, I thought, and set about locating the add-on in the Thunderbird profiles directory. In Windows XP, it’s:
C:\Documents and Settings\<YOUR_USERNAME>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<8_RANDOM_CHARACTERS>.default\extensions\{a6a33690-2c6a-11d9-9669-0800200c9a66}
In that directory is a file called domains.txt
, which lists the supported domains for the Hotmail add-on. Adding in the line:
<domain>live.co.uk</domain>
and then restarting Thunderbird fixed the problem, and a few seconds later my e-mails flooded in.
Thanks – that’s great.
AntTuesday, 9th September 2008 21:56:13
Can anyone help me locate it in the mess that is the Vista filing system?!
Impr0vTuesday, 7th October 2008 23:38:00
%AppData% can be used to jump straight to the Application Data directory in 2000/XP/Vista, so try %AppData%\Thunderbird\Profiles\ then find your profile (<8_RANDOM_CHARACTERS>.default) and hopefully extensions\{a6a33690-2c6a-11d9-9669-0800200c9a66} will be inside.
MarcWednesday, 8th October 2008 18:34:06