Thunderbird: Cannot send email but can read emails

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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.

IMAP and SMTP are completely and utterly independant of each other. Just
because you have IMAP set up to read mail, and maybe to post in local
mailboxes, means absolutely nothing to SMTP. You have to set it up
separately.

> I can use windoes outlook to send/receive local/remote emails
> via the same SMTP server from which this message was sent.

Then it should be easy. Just copy the SMTP settings from Outlook. OTOH
if Outlook is using an Exchange server then I'm afraid can't help you.

> 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.

What do you mean "refused"? Is this a pop-up message on your screen, a
returned error email, or what? Is there no indication of why it's
refused? Is it refused by your local server or by a remote server? Are
you using a fully-qualified domain name for the destination or some kind
of local alias?

poc