Thunderbird sending mail

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun Apr 15 23:01:33 UTC 2007


Martin Marques wrote:
> I'm having some issues regarding thunderbird sending mail. Basically it
> hogs the CPU each time I try to send a mail trying to resolve the
> address of the smtp server. So I configured my default smtp server to
> localhost (I have a postfix server configured there for outgoing mail),
> but thunderbird, strangely keeps having a hard time resolving it
> (localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf has order
> hosts,bind).
> 
> I was wondering if thunderbird had the possibility of sending mail
> through /usr/sbin/sendmail (or where ever it is).
> 
> Other apps don't have any problems with dns resolving.

You may be jumping the gun when you conclude it to be a dns issue.  In any
event, instead of putting in a host name for your SMTP server why don't you
put in an IP address?  Either put in the IP for you ethernet adapter or put
in 127.0.0.1.  As a matter of fact, try both for fun.




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