SEND MESSAGE ERROR: "Sending of the mail failed"`
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. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SEND MESSAGE ERROR: "Sending of the mail failed"`
David E. Ross wrote: 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. Got it, thanks - wanted to make sure there wasn't some other drawback if I used about:config. Thanks for this suggestion. I've had no problems sending emails with this preference set at 210, so I'm declaring victory and moving on to the next conundrum! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SEND MESSAGE ERROR: "Sending of the mail failed"`
On 7/19/17 at 5:46 AM, Bill Spikowski's prodigious digits fired off with
great aplomb:
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.
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Re: SEND MESSAGE ERROR: "Sending of the mail failed"`
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
Re: SEND MESSAGE ERROR: "Sending of the mail failed"`
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?
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Re: SEND MESSAGE ERROR: "Sending of the mail failed"`
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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David Ross
