At 8:56 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote: >I have AT&T DSL, connected by wire to a Quicksilver running Tiger and >wirelessly via AirPort Graphite to a MacBook running Leopard. Both use >Thunderbird for email. > >In recent days, both machines are having increasing trouble sending >emails. At first, you'd fail on the first one or two attempts and then >succeed. Now, you fail about 6+ times before a success. (Receiving, >and browsing, both work fine.) > >I'd think this suggests a corrupt prefs file, but I'm hesitant to >start wiping out preference files left and right, since I'm frankly >not sophisticated enough to restore them. I do have a recent backup of >both machines' configurations on an external hard disk, but I also >have better ways to spend my Sunday than bumbling around ignorantly at >the business of incompetent file replacement. > >What's this sound like to you eminent minds out there?
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