Thunderbird Problem
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?
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yes - without a problem
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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?
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Are both pop and smtp not working? Is this your isp's relay or is it on a local net?
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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
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strange indeed - just to clarify I've got thunderbird 1.0 and Redhat 9.
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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 Code:
telnet mailserver.yourdomain 25 You mentioned that you have sucessfully relayed and downloaded messages on this server. Was this done with your current install? |
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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 Quote:
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ok got it sorted - really strange, when i disabled the proxy it worked fine. Though html emails lack linked graphics
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