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Jan 15, 2006 | 10:56 am

#16

Loren Pechtel

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Quote:

Originally Posted by msb0b

I think it is an ISP problem. Increasingly more ISPs are filtering outgoing email traffic on SMTP as to prevent spam from entering the email system. They have to do this because their subscribers' zombie computers are sending spam using the standard SMTP protocol. UAallthway's ISP may have just implemented this policy. Unfortunately, his legitimate outgoing mail became victims of this change.

Yeah, port 25 blocking is common. However it would take out both Outlook and Thunderbird at the same time.

Jan 15, 2006 | 1:55 pm

#17

UAalltheway

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I finally got it to work! Low and behold, it was the SMTP security settings! I was just tooling around trying the different options to see if any of them would make a difference, and the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) choice worked!

Thanks for all the extremely helpful replies!

UAalltheway

Jan 15, 2006 | 2:30 pm

#18

mbreuer

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Good that you got it working. You might want to upgrade to Thunderbird 1.5 - faster & has some nice improvements. Full details are at http://www.mozilla.com.

Jan 15, 2006 | 5:48 pm

#19

UAalltheway

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Originally Posted by mbreuer

Good that you got it working. You might want to upgrade to Thunderbird 1.5 - faster & has some nice improvements. Full details are at http://www.mozilla.com.

I actually just upgraded to 1.5 in the effort to get it working again.

Very nice, as always.