On 7/17/2017 9:53 AM, Bill Spikowski wrote:
> I'm suddenly getting this message regularly when trying to send emails from
> my XP computer:
>
>> Sending of the message failed.
>> The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server
>> (SMTP) mail.greenviewdata.com timed out. Try again.
>
> Is there a way I could lengthen the 'time out' period?
>
> The SM default time-out has always been adequate for me, going back to
> forever, but maybe not any more!
>
> I'm having no trouble sending out emails using my gmail account in Seamonkey
> -- but then they show my gmail address as the sender, which I don't want
> since I dislike gmail and almost never use it.
>
> I've also had intermittent problems sending messages from Seamonkey in recent
> months on my Win7 computers -- but usually I get a password dialog box; if I
> reenter my password, the message goes out. My new problem on XP might have
> the same cause, but without the ability to reenter my password to work around
> it.
>
The preference variable to control timeouts is mailnews.tcptimeout. Try
adding the following to your user.js file in your profile:
user_pref("mailnews.tcptimeout", 210);
// set connection timeout to 3.5 minutes because of slow
// response
The "210" is the number of seconds (thus 3.5 minutes) to allow before a
timeout. You should adjust this as necessary. The semi-colon (;) at
the end of the first line is necessary. The second and third lines are
merely a comment to remind you why you did this.
I had a very similar problem, but with submitting messages to a
newsgroup. In my situation, the NNTP server was timeing-out because it
was not handling IPv6 connections well. I tried setting
mailnews.tcptimeout to 210, but I still had frequent problems. I added
the following to my user.js file in my profile:
user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true);
// block use of IP6
This eliminated my need for setting the mailnews.tcptimeout preference
variable, which I then reverted to its default of 100 seconds.
I would not recommend setting network.dns.disableIPv6 for a profile that
is also used by the SeaMonkey browser as the number of Web sites using
IPv6 is increasing. Instead, you might want to have a separate profile
for mail-news. In my case, I use SeaMonkey for my browser but
Thunderbird for E-mail and newsgroups; so setting
network.dns.disableIPv6 to "true" only for mail-news was simple.
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