Cannot Send Emails today but I could yesterday
Hello,
I was able to send emails yesterday, but not today.
I am using windows 10 and my own email server
I have disabled my firewall both in Avast and in Windows.
I can sent emails from my tablet, but not from my computer
This is the message I am getting and it comes up instantly:
Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) mail.badgeguys.com timed out. Try again.
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I have the same problem. I switched from one email server to another, then tried to set up Thunderbird according to the new service's published DNS settings. I finally got it to download messages from the server, but when I try to send, Thunderbird responds instantly, no waiting, that the server "timed out", and refuses to send the email. Baloney. This is not the first recent problem with Thunderbird. After installing a recent update, the lower right viewing pane stayed blank, keeping me from reading my emails, even when selected. I had to reinstall a previous update. Now I'm afraid to update again. Further, in Win10 on my Dell 15-5568, Thunderbird increasingly stays in its (Not Responding) state, refusing to allow me to do any work. It has taken as long as 15 minutes to get from power-on to reading e-mails. And today I have already spent an hour trying to get Thunderbird to work. The pandemic must have decimated decent programmers. I would much prefer a leaner and cleaner, more reliable version of Thunderbird. I don't use all the bells and whistles. The software world increasingly presents us with a tech version of the Peter Principle. Instead of promoting a manager to the level of his incompetence, it updates software to the level of its incapacity to do work. It's like Microsoft adding ever more bloated "features" without bothering to fix the old bugs. If Mozilla cannot pull Thunderbird out of this hole, then it should take responsibility and provide us with a reader/organizer program that will allow us to re-organize, consolidate and read mail in all of our old profiles, and export them to other formats for archiving.
I've also been getting a bunch of strange messages from Thunderbird claiming that the certificates for email servers that have been working for years are incorrect, further claiming that legitimate sites wouldn't do this. It's not the certificates at fault - it's Thunderbird. Few of us who use Thunderbird have the skills to figure out why things like this happen - or how to fix them. Making up new problems for us isn't cool.