At 6:17 PM -0700 10/13/2009, tonycd wrote: > 2 adsl-99-144-239-254.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net (99.144.239.254) >17.870 ms 16.665 ms 25.795 ms >[etc]
Ok.... It's not Thunderbird - if the prefs etc were foo, it would be failing all the time. It's not your DNS - that translation (the dig) was good. It's not your path to Yahoo's servers - the traceroute is ok. That brings us back to the original error message: >The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server >smtp.att.yahoo failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing >SMTP connections. I just hit that SMTP server cluster directly, using telnet. Most of my attempt succeeded in connecting and getting the server's first response. But quite a few failed! So the problem is Yahoo's server is refusing connections now and then. This is the type of thing that Yahoo should have noticed and fixed fairly quickly. but .... sigh. At this point the best thing to do would be for you to send a message to your ISP. Give them that error message. Tell them that DNS lookups and a traceroute seems fine - that the problem is that the server itself is not always responding. Because this is a contracted/outsourced service, it may take a while to fix... IN the mean time.... You might want to switch to a more reliable provider. My fav these days is Gmail... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
