Thunderbird fails to send emails on the first request (per account)

Frederic Muller fred at cm17.com
Thu Jul 23 08:54:41 UTC 2015


On 07/23/2015 03:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/23/15 16:04, Frederic Muller wrote:
>> On 07/23/2015 02:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 07/23/15 15:22, Frederic Muller wrote:
>>>> So now that I have solved my screen problem I am having a weird annoying
>>>> problem with Thunderbird which is failing (time out error, but very fast
>>>> response) to send email on the first "send click" on every account.
>>>> After that everything works as long as I don't restart TB.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what this could be and how to look into it?
>>> Are all of the accounts using the same Outgoing SMTP Server?
>>>
>>> If you are using a domain name for the SMTP server, have you tried using an IP address instead?
>>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> No they are not using the same SMTP server and have specific domain
>> names. I haven't tried to use the IP address (I will right away), but
>> all of this was working fine under F21 with whatever version of TB I was
>> using. I would have hoped I wasn't the only one ;-)
>>
>> ... trying ...
>>
>> and I am editing my draft to say the same happened when using the IP
>> address. And since I changed the server name and am using SSL it only
>> asked me to confirm the "new" certificate on my second click. So the
>> first click doesn't seem to go anywhere.
> 
> OK, you are using different SMTP servers for each account and switching to IP addresses makes no difference.
> 
> For the connections you're using SSL/TLS and the Authentication Method is "Normal Password"?  If so, you're using the standard port of 465?
> 
> And, just to confirm, on the first click you get a message that says "Time-out" (without details) almost immediately?
> 
> Yes, it would be nice if others were seeing this issue.  :-)
> 

Yes, good description. Let me attach the exact message I am getting, but
yes I feel it is not checking anything...

Fred
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