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.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
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