Hi,


I seem to have a problem post installation of thunderbird. I've configured thunderbird to point at my pop3 mail server, (certain th esettings are correct) however it gives a connection timeout error.


This seems strange becuase I can ping the server and it responses and my internet connect is fine,though have a problem connecting to a CVS server - so I think this might be some sort of network configuration issue.

Anyone any thoughts?

Has the server worked with any other email client?

yes - without a problem

for what its worth I installed thunderbird at :

/usr/local/bin/thunderbird

and change permissions on the folder

That should be fine. I don't think you needed to change the permissions though. What I did for example was to softlink the thunderbird binary to /usr/bin so that it's in the $PATH of regular mortals. Thunderbird makes a .thunderbird/ directory in the homedir of the user running it, so permissions are not a problem.
Considering the server apparantly works normally, perhaps it wouldn't hurt to doublecheck the settings in thunderbird one more time to be 100% sure, or closely compare them to the setting in the client that does work.
Hope that helps.

double checked my settings - they're fine :-(

Tried to send an email, and i get this message:

Sending of message failed
The message could not be sent becuase connecting to SMTP server <server_name> failed........

It wouldn't have anything to do with the way my etc/host etc etc is setup?

Are both pop and smtp not working? Is this your isp's relay or is it on a local net?

If you can ping your relay by name then you are resolving properly. Try a telnet connection on port 25, you should see the standard smtp server response.

Tom

I can'r recieve or send. The server is on a local network

I can ping the mail server (mailhost.BASE_URL) no problem


I tried:
telnet mailhost.BASE_URL:25

But it says unknown host

I then tried
telnet mailhost.BASE_URL

Trying IP_ADDR...
Connected to maillist.BASE_URL (IP_ADDR).
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.


I'm not sure if this is good,bad or ok?

I upgraded to 9.0 and got this same problem that you're having. To solve it, I had to revert back to 8.0 and it worked fine. You can get 8.0 here

strange indeed - just to clarify I've got thunderbird 1.0 and Redhat 9.

Since my machine is dual boot as a test i install thunderbird on the windows partition - and it worked fine - argghhhhhhh.

totally stumped :-(

trican

the telnet will show quickly if your machine is resolving and if the relay is accepting a low level connection.

you will need to omit the colon in your command and replace with a space

you should see the smtp response [sendmail version etc...]

You mentioned that you have sucessfully relayed and downloaded messages on this server. Was this done with your current install?

Actually no I can't connect, it times out

It displays:

220 NOT_MAILSERVER.MY_DOMAIN ESMTP Exim 4.20 Sun ...date ...

After a few minutes it says
421 SMTP command timeout - closing connection



Yes I'm currently using Kmail, which downloads the mail fine - (though html graphics links don't show)

ok got it sorted - really strange, when i disabled the proxy it worked fine. Though html emails lack linked graphics