Thunderbird SMTP Issues after Fedora 11 Upgrade

brian fedora at logi.ca
Mon Jul 6 14:42:01 UTC 2009


On 07/06/2009 08:53 AM, Jim Duda wrote:
> After upgrading from fedora 10 to fedora 11, Thunderbird (3.0 beta) is
> giving me fits. At first, I was unable to send any email. I figured
> out that I needed to disable "security and authentication' checkbox
> in my SMTP server settings in order for mail to work.
>
> This solution however doesn't work for newsgroups. Any attempt to send
> an emailfrom the newsgroup reader fails. I get a message saying that
> I need to check my server settings.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this issue?
>
> This bug seems similar:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505084
>
> I had to send this posting from more normal email, and not the group
> listing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>

I had the same issue, except I'm not using TB for newsgroups. But I 
wonder if you could simply create a duplicate entry in "Outgoing Server 
(SMTP) Setings" with the authentication option toggled and use that for 
news.

Go into "Edit/Account Settings ..." and scroll down the left pane to the 
bottom (I had a lot of trouble locating this, myself).

I'd appreciate it if someone could explain what's going on, though. Why 
do I need to uncheck "use name and password" on this F11 box but not on 
my others? And how/why does it work?





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