I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email. Having it installed both on my Minty machine and my M/S pc.
The problem is that a given email (same content, same attachments) will quite happily send via Thunderbird on my minty machine but refuses to send the attachments when I try it on the M/S pc. I don't understand this, I am using an identical email program, same modem, same server, everything the same but the pc refuses to send the attachments. It gives me a message to the effect that SMTP server not responding.
Apart from the obvious (microsoft) any thoughts as to why one machine/email is working as it should and the other not?
I cannot find any differences in the settings between the email program on one machine and on the other.
The PC will send the main body of the email fine but not the attachments.
Any ideas?
Mychael
(solved) Email problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
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(solved) Email problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
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Re: Enail problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
Your SMTP settings must be incorrect - I cannot think of any other reason for that error.
Re: Enail problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
I'll recheck again. I'll get both machines up and get someone on one whilst I am on the other. We will read back settings to each other. It's the only thing I have not tried.
Mychael
Mychael
Re: Enail problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
Settings/options are identical on both machines. Both using the same build version of Thunderbird.
I've even disabled the virus checking of outgoing emails in my virus checker program. Still no solution to the error.
PC has problems Minty machine works fine.
Mychael
I've even disabled the virus checking of outgoing emails in my virus checker program. Still no solution to the error.
PC has problems Minty machine works fine.
Mychael
Re: Enail problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
marksteven wrote:Hi,
Please tell me which protocol you are using to send your E-mail?And also tell me how to send mail?
Thanks for sharing this information.
Sorry but I don't really understand your question. Are you using Thunderbird? On what operating system.?
Are you trying to get Thunderbird set up on your machine?
Better if you put your query in it's own posting as I'm still trying to get answers to my problem.
Mychael
Re: Enail problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
It's a long shot but just to rule it out, is it possible to change the smtp server and test that with Thunderbird on Windows? Just to rule out some weird bug in the server. A free gmail account provides access to smtp.google.com.mipcar wrote:Settings/options are identical on both machines. Both using the same build version of Thunderbird.
I've even disabled the virus checking of outgoing emails in my virus checker program. Still no solution to the error.
PC has problems Minty machine works fine.
Mychael
Re: Enail problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
Firewall in windows is blocking smtp ?
http://support.resortdata.com/Customers ... in0010.htm
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-mail/3561 ... error.html
--smtp configuration error
http://support.resortdata.com/Customers ... in0010.htm
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-mail/3561 ... error.html
--smtp configuration error
Re: Enail problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
I'm not on a workstation, just home pc.DrHu wrote:Firewall in windows is blocking smtp ?
http://support.resortdata.com/Customers ... in0010.htm
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-mail/3561 ... error.html
--smtp configuration error
In fact it's become even weirder, a friend I tried sending the same email to (as a test), actually received the full mail with the attachments even though I got the same error message on my machine and the mail I tried to send does not appear in the "Sent" folder.
I could try disabling the firewall my firewall very briefly just to see what happens then.
Mychael
Re: (solved) Email problems with Thunderbird. (on PC)
It was suggested to me to try manually compacting the folders in Thunderbird. I have it set to automatically do it anyway but gave it a try.
It completed operation very quickly so I'm assuming not much needed compacting however after doing it manually the full email with attachments sent without errors and was received normally.
Wondering now if the automatic compacting is not doing it's job or if I should just manually do it once a week to be sure. That's of course assuming it was the cure of the problem and not just a fluke. Have to wait and see.
Mychael
It completed operation very quickly so I'm assuming not much needed compacting however after doing it manually the full email with attachments sent without errors and was received normally.
Wondering now if the automatic compacting is not doing it's job or if I should just manually do it once a week to be sure. That's of course assuming it was the cure of the problem and not just a fluke. Have to wait and see.
Mychael