Thunderbird: Cannot send email but can read emails

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri May 30 19:44:43 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:33 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> | Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> | > I cannot figure out how to get thunderbird to send
> | > out email.
> | 
> | You could start by explaining what you've tried to do. At the 
> | very least
> | you need to configure an SMTP server.
> 
> I have the F8-Thunderbird account IMAPed to my SMTP server,
> so I can read/send local email messages to local users.  But
> I cannot send email Thurnerbird (IMAP) outbound non-local
> messages.
> 
> I can use windoes outlook to send/receive local/remote emails
> via the same SMTP server from which this message was sent.
> 
> I am trying to figure out why via F8->Thunderbird remote
> outbound email messages are "refused" (Thunderbird give the
> appearance of no errors) - I tried to send a message to
> Fedora-Users but was unable to do so.
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sounds like you have some relay restrictions on your smtp server...what
is it? Sendmail? Postfix?

Craig




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