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Since the upgrade to 31.1.0 I can't send an email with an attachment. I'm running OpenSuse 13.1 on KDE. How can I fix this?

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Urlourd
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If I try to send an email with an attachment or in inserted photo it starts to send with a progress bar that will read a 80 to 95 percent completion and then stay there till it times out after a few minutes. I get this error: Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server outgoing.verizon.net timed out. Try again or contact your network administrator. I've been using the same email provider for several years. It works for simple text emails with no issue. If I try to forward or reply to an email I get the same error. How can I fix this?

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Robert

If I try to send an email with an attachment or in inserted photo it starts to send with a progress bar that will read a 80 to 95 percent completion and then stay there till it times out after a few minutes. I get this error: Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server outgoing.verizon.net timed out. Try again or contact your network administrator. I've been using the same email provider for several years. It works for simple text emails with no issue. If I try to forward or reply to an email I get the same error. How can I fix this? thanks, Robert

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Ok, I figured it out. As I was going through the config editor I saw the outgoing server settings. It made me wonder if something there had changed. I went to my provider and stepped through their list and found where mine differed. So either the upgrade to thunderbird changed something or verizon changed something. Thanks for the input.

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Matt
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an old solution, but it might still be relevant.

see http://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/i-cant-sent-mail-networktcpsendbuffer.html

Urlourd
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Hi, thanks for the tip. The latest version had a slightly different way to get to the variables. It was EDIT, PREFERENCES, ADVANCED, CONFIG EDITOR. Then click on the promise to be careful. In the list there wasn't a network.tcp.sendbuffer as mentioned in the article. The closest was network.buffer.cache.size. Changing that made no difference. There are so many variables that I can certainly believe that one of these might be the culprit.

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Ok, I figured it out. As I was going through the config editor I saw the outgoing server settings. It made me wonder if something there had changed. I went to my provider and stepped through their list and found where mine differed. So either the upgrade to thunderbird changed something or verizon changed something. Thanks for the input.