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thunderbird package

email message keeps telling me "Administrative prohibition"

Asked by libertathiest

Binary package hint: thunderbird

the damm thing just keeps saying "administrative prohibition".

nothing wrong with the setup.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 22 16:27:17 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-eeepc i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #365330.

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Steve (stupendoussteve-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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Steve (stupendoussteve-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Good day, can you please post a few specifics on your setup?

- What version of Thunderbird?
- What type of account is this? (Work, or webmail such as Hotmail/Gmail)

This error is given to Thunderbird from the SMTP server, it is not generated by Thunderbird itself.

For more information, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Administrative_Prohibition

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