[GRLUG] Thunderbird on Win7

[Eric Beversluis]

On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 16:39 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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?
> 
It's not clear to me what that would establish. Wouldn't a mail server
not be open to telnet? 
"eric at eric-lenovo:~$ telnet mail.omnis.com
Trying 216.239.128.27...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
eric at eric-lenovo:~$ sudo ping 216.239.128.27
PING 216.239.128.27 (216.239.128.27) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 216.239.128.27 ping statistics ---
23 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 22175ms

eric at eric-lenovo:~$ telnet mail.omnis.com:587
telnet: could not resolve mail.omnis.com:587/telnet: Name or service not
known"

>From Win7/Putty:
"220 relay.omnis.com ESMTP Postfix - (mail-hub-d.omnis.com)





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