[K12OSN] Thunderbird can send but not receive

[Petre Scheie]

Does Tbird give any errors when it tries to retrieve mail?  Where is the mail delivered 
to?  That is, something is acting as a mail server, receiving messages on port 25.  Is 
this the LTSP server or some other box?  If it's the LTSP server, try telnetting to port 
25 and issuing the SMTP commands by hand (look up SMTP commands on google, they're 
pretty simple).  Thunderbird will pull the mail from the local mail store using POP3 
(port 110), so see if you can telnet to port 110 and get messages manually (look up POP3 
commands on google, they're also simple).

If mail is delivered to another box, use the above commands to test talking to it to see 
if everything is okay on that machine.  Let us know how you make out.

Petre

Carl Keil wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've got a wierd problem.  I set thunderbird up for one user.  She could 
> send and receive for a while, but, being  a kid, didn't do a lot of 
> consistent emailing.  Later I tried to set up my own account and I could 
> set it up to send emails, but not receive them.  This is for an account 
> that can send and receive emails fine from a windows workstation on the 
> same network.  Now the original account can send but not receive.  I 
> mentioned that she wasn't emailing a lot, so I don't know whether her 
> problem cropped up when I tried to set up the second account or not.  It 
> could have been any time in the last month that TBird stopped working 
> for her.
> 
> I have tried:
> adding appropriate entries on the firewall for ports 25 and 110
> dropping the firewall completely
> different thin clients (I don't see why this would make a difference 
> though)
> KDE and GNOME
> uninstalling and reinstalling TBird
> 
> Does TBird rely on some other mail transport or service for sending or 
> something?  I try to have the services pretty stripped down to just what 
> I'm using.  In case it makes a difference and anyone is familiar the 
> setup is pop/smtp and the mail host is easystreet, I'm not doing my own 
> mailserver although sendmail is on on the server for sending out server 
> notices and stuff.
> 
> I'm really flummuxed here.  Can anyone think of what's wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ck
> 
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