173153 - Sending mail gives 'Unable to connect to SMTP server %S'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 146488

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[Jan de Visser]

Sending mail used to work just fine, then last week stopped working with above
mentioned error message. Checking the 'Outgoing Server (SMTP)' settings did not
help, nor did upgrading from moz 1.1 to 1.2a. Note that my SMTP server is
functional; I tried several (my ISPs, localhost [exim/cygwin], and a third one),
all of which work fine with Outlook 2000. In the 1.1 version the 'OK' button of
the SMTP server config screen appeared dead as well, but this seems better in
1.2a. Here's the snippet of my prefs.js dealing with SMTP:

user_pref("mail.smtp.defaultserver", "smtp2");
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.auth_method", 0);
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.hostname", "localhost");
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.port", 25);
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.try_ssl", 1);
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.username", "");
user_pref("mail.smtpservers", "smtp2");

Comment 1

[Jan de Visser]

Hrrmmm... Further research unveiled that the links between my mail accounts and
my smtp servers in prefs.js was fubared. My 'primary' account pointed to smtp
server smtp3, which wasn't present. Before today I never manually editted my
prefs.js however, so something must have gotten confused at some point...

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146488 ***