Closed Bug 1258233 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Thunderbird fails to connect to smtp.googlemail.com

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
38 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: tjrob, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160315153207

Steps to reproduce:

Push "Send" in a composition window after filling in To:, Subject:, and body.

(This is Thunderbird version 38.7.0.)


Actual results:

It says "connecting to smtp.googlemail.com" forever (> 1 minute). I push cancel, and then OK to the message that it failed. I then push "Send" again and the email gets sent normally (2-3 seconds).

Thunderbird also frequently takes > 1 minute to connect to imap.googlemail.com. Usually it succeeds, eventually. This is especially frequent when accessing a folder.


Expected results:

It should send the message without my having to send it twice. It should connect to the IMAP server quickly.

This is new over the past 2-3 days. It used to work just fine. I remember a Thunderbird update in there.
My wife and I both use Thunderbird on Mac OS X 10.9.5, connecting to different gmail accounts. We have identical problems. She has version 38.6.0, I have 38.7.0.
Please note: Bugzilla is NOT a support forum. It is a tracking system for bugs in Mozilla products.

This really looks like a support problem. We don't know what's going on in your home network and with your connection to Gmail's SMTP server.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
I confirm this is not a thunderbird problem. Taking the laptop to a different WiFi does not exhibit the problem.
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