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

[Frederic Muller]

On 07/23/2015 04:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/23/15 16:54, Frederic Muller wrote:
>> On 07/23/2015 03:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>
>>> 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...
>>
> 
> Hummm....  I have basically the same setup for connections to gmail and yahoo mail servers and not seeing any issue.  Have you, or could you, an account with one of those services to test?
> 
> I'm on F22 having done fedup to get here and running the stock T-bird from the Fedora repos.
> 
> I was thinking it could have been related to DNS, but changing to the IP address should have eliminated that as well as a potential IPv4/IPv6 issue....
> 
> Are you on a network internal to mail.cm17.com?
> 
> 
No.. cm17.com is in Chicago and I am in Cambodia now ;-)

I didn't understand what you requested though, do you want me to create
a new account to see if it suffers from the same problem?

Thank you anyway, appreciate to have someone on the same time zone (almost).

Fred