Thunderbird: Cannot send email but can read emails

Daniel B. Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Fri May 30 20:00:10 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:
| 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.
| ----
| sounds like you have some relay restrictions on your smtp 
| server...what is it? Sendmail? Postfix?

My main server is Exchange.  You do have a point there, that
I may have relay restrictions for outbound deliveries but
local deliveries work.  Ah, I'll have to check this out.

Thanks!
Dan




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