Can,t send mail in t-bird or evolution.????

[Paul Howarth]

tommy12 wrote:
> This is an issue for my fedora box only. I get the error that "the
> message could not be sent b/c connecting to smpt server failed. The
> server may be unavailable or is refusing smpt connections. Please
> verify that your smpt setting is correct and try again, or else
> contact your admin. All setting are the  same as xp and my suse
> partitions?? Does the permissions for t-bird have to be set to read
> and write for users to send mail??? Any help is greatly appreciated.
> I have posted this in three other sites forums w/o a single reply.

Can you actually get a connection to your SMTP server?

$ telnet your.smtp.server:smtp

(replace your.smtp.server with the hostname of your SMTP server)

If you get a connection, type "QUIT" to exit).

Paul.