280721 - SMTP Server unavailable or refusing connection -- Sending of message failed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Shabbir Khan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; YPC 3.0.0; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

E-mail Client: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)
Client OS: Windows XP
SMTP server: webmail.register.com, port 25

I am successfully receiving all of my e-mail messages using Thunderbird client 
on my XP system.

However, I can not send any message through my SMTP server. I am getting 
a "The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections." after 
successfully connecting with my webmail.register.com SMTP server. My e-mail 
client (Thunderbird 1.0) is timing out too quickly (~ 20 seconds).

I need a mechanism to change the timeout interval for sending a message.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compose a message.
2.Use an SMTP server that is overloaded and fails to respond (after a 
connection has been established via a successful logon) for a long time. This 
time should be greater than Thunderbird client's timeout setting).
3.In debug mode, logon to the SMTP server but wait 20 seconds before sending 
the message.

Actual Results:  
Received a "Sending of message failed" message.

Expected Results:  
Give me a preference setting to tweak the timeout interval for an SMTP send 
before Thunderbird client times out.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

DUP of Bug 189363?

Comment 2

[Albert Feller]

Reporter: Bug 189363 got fixed, so it would be great if you can try to reproduce
the bug with a recent nightly

Comment 3

[Albert Feller]

email from reporter:
> Albert, thanks for fixing the bug. How did you fix it BTW? Let me know.

It wasn't me who fixed the bug, I just noticed that bug 189363 which might be,
according to comment #1, a duplicate of your bug got fixed.

> I generally stay away from installing the nightly builds.

I can totally understand you, even though it's a pitty because we don't know, if
you have exactly the same bug as bug 189363

> When will the next big version of Mozilla/Thunderbird ready for download?

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/roadmap.html should help you