[GRLUG] Thunderbird on Win7

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 14:37 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: 
> On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 12:17 -0500, Kyle wrote:
> > On 3/6/2011 11:05 AM, 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.
> > > 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
> > > tryig to convert the existing accounts to SSL/TLS didn't work.
> > > Omnis.com says to use port 587 and mail.omnis.com for SMTP. I've got my
> > > password saved properly in the Thunderbird password vault. I've tried
> > > both the "Encrypted password" setting in "Authentication Methods" and
> > > the "Normal Password" setting. Neither works. I keep getting a
> > > "connection to server timed out" error message.
> > > Anyone know how I should get this to work?
> > A lot of those types of setting combinations depend on what your mail 
> > server supports.  For example, at the server level certain 
> > authentication methods can be enabled/disabled, SSL/TLS can be 
> > enabled/disabled, and you can run mail servers on arbitrary ports.  If 
> > it were me, I'd probably contact Omnis and ask how they have things set 
> > up so you can match them.
> I checked with Omnis. They said:
> --"all timeouts relate to connectivity on the users end to us"
> --Outbound server is mail.omnis.com port 587
> --inbound server is mail.omnis.com with port 110 
> I've turned off both AVG antivirus and the Windows firewall.
> Still getting the connection timeout.
> ????

Can you telnet to the target address & port?



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