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can receive emails, but can't send emails. gets hung up trying to connect to mobile.charter.net

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johnloehmann replied
johnloehmann
johnloehmann

I can receive emails, but can't send them. I use thunderbird and the outgoing mail gets hung up trying to connect to my outgoing internet server: mobile.charter.net. After 20-25 seconds I get an error message that states that the connection timed out. I checked the settings for the outgoing server and it is correct. (http://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/email-settings/#/desktop-email-settings) I've changed the outgoing port to 587. Still no dice. The only significant (?) change is that I'm now at a different geographical location and thereby a different internet connection i.e. Optimum vs Spectrum, but does that really make a difference?

I can receive emails, but can't send them. I use thunderbird and the outgoing mail gets hung up trying to connect to my outgoing internet server: mobile.charter.net. After 20-25 seconds I get an error message that states that the connection timed out. I checked the settings for the outgoing server and it is correct. (http://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/email-settings/#/desktop-email-settings) I've changed the outgoing port to 587. Still no dice. The only significant (?) change is that I'm now at a different geographical location and thereby a different internet connection i.e. Optimum vs Spectrum, but does that really make a difference?

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Please post your Troubleshooting Information. At the top right of the Thunderbird window, click the menu button , then select Help > Troubleshooting Information. Press the "Copy text to clipboard button" and paste the information into your reply.

johnloehmann
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Application Basics 

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 52.4.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0
   Profile Folder: Open Folder

             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20171004092449
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
   Profiles: about:profiles

 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext

   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (pop3) imap.CHARTER.NET:143, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: , mobile.charter.net:587, plain, none, true

   account4:
     INCOMING: account4, , (imap) imap.charter.net:143, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: , mobile.charter.net:587, plain, none, true

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 Graphics

     GPU #1
     Description: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
     Vendor ID: 0x10de
     Device ID: 0x1401
     RAM: 4096
     Drivers: nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
     Driver Version: 10.18.13.6472
     Driver Date: 3-21-2016
johnloehmann
johnloehmann Question owner

Driver Date: 3-21-2016 

     Features
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     WebGL Renderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0) -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 2.1.0.2a250c8a0e15)

     AzureCanvasBackend: skia
     AzureCanvasAc
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johnloehmann Question owner

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