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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