On 7/19/2017 2:46 AM, Bill Spikowski wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> Can I change the timeout preference to 210 using about:config, instead of
> adding these new lines to user.js?
>
Yes. I happen to prefer adding the lines to user.js so that I can
insert a comment (a line beginning with //) to remind me why I did it.
Using about:config does not allow for commenting changes.
My suggestion in your case illustrates my use of comments. I originally
changed the timeout preference to 210. While it reduced the number of
instances of timeouts with a newsgroup server, it did not eliminate
them. I was then advised to block IPv6, which completely resolved the
problem. I was able to see my prior change in timeouts. Not only did I
remove that from user.js, but I also had the name of the preference
variable in order to reset it via about:config.
--
David Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
President Trump now denies there are any tapes that
recorded his conversations with ex-FBI Director Comey.
Between when Trump hinted there might be such tapes
and his denial, there was sufficient time to destroy
any tapes.
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