From: address@is.invalid   
      
   JJ,   
      
   > As an alternative, you can use the older Thunderbird 52.9.1.   
      
   I just installed and started it.   The very first thing it tried to do was   
   to connect to a handfull of mozilla servers.  Strike one.   
      
   It doesn't seem to have any accessible configuration where I can gouvern   
   (stop!) such behaviour.  Strike two.   
      
   Clicking the "skip this and use my existing email" button gave me a dialog   
   where I could input some of my email-account information - after which it   
   tried, again without any kind of asking, to connect to my email provider to   
   "autoconfigure" the rest.  Strike three.   
      
   It could not do that (as I disconnected the ethernet cable before starting   
   the installing), so I entered my account information myself.  Which it found   
   it had to test.  And although I used the exact same (copy-pasted)   
   information in two other email clients it refused to accept the data.   
      
   And that was pretty-much all it said.  No information on the why of it   
   and/or what I could do to fix it.  Just a "can't complete" message.  Strike   
   four and its out !   
      
   By the way : A quick google showed more people had the same "it rejects my   
   account data" problem, but no solution they could apply themselves it seems.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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