[GRLUG] Thunderbird on Win7

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 11:05 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: 
> Does anyone understand Thunderbird? I'm confused and don't find any
> clear answers at their site. Nor does the Mozilla community forum seem
> useful--there seem to be lots of good questions but few answers.

Thunderbird is a twitchy beast but there is no real reason identical
settings *shouldn't* work.

> My problem is with using TLS on Thunderbird on Win7. (It's working fine
> on my Linux box with Evolution.)
> I've deleted my old accounts and tried to set up new from scratch, after
> trying to convert the existing accounts to SSL/TLS didn't work.
> Omnis.com says to use port 587 and mail.omnis.com for SMTP. 

Have you specified port 587 in Evolution?

If you telnet smtp.omnis.com:587 do you get a connection?


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