Did you try telnet from the concerned windose?
Andreas
Am Wednesday 19 August 2009 08:52:51 schrieb Maxwell Smart:
> I can connect from the same network using a Linux box. I can also
> connect to the server from the windows box using webmail, which means
> the DNS is working correctly.
>
> Andreas Galatis wrote:
> > Hi Maxwell,
> >
> > following your description this is not a authentification problem but
> > rather a DNS or configuration issue.
> > Did you set the correct servername for outgoing mails in Thunderbird?
> > Is the protocol (smtp, submission) open on your (outgoing) firewall?
> > "Cannot connect to server" is far before authentification.
> > Try telnetting from those windows clients.
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> > Am Wednesday 19 August 2009 08:04:37 schrieb Maxwell Smart:
> >> I am having authentication problems that I cannot seem to figure out.
> >> It always seems to happen with Thunderbird on Windows systems. I
> >> cannot get the outgoing SMTP server to authenticate. It always comes up
> >> with an error, cannot connect to server. I am sure it's a problem with
> >> Thunderbird, but cannot seem to solve it. Anyone else have trouble
> >> sending out using Thunderbird?
> >>
> >> The mail server is QMT and authenticates fine from a Linux workstation
> >> at the same location as the Windows box.
> >>
> >> CJ
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