Anyone using Thunderbird mail?

[diandtom]

I installed Thunderbird mail on my laptop and after a few seconds the connection times out. Anyone know how the change the timeout time ?

[DriVer]

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Originally Posted by diandtom I installed Thunderbird mail on my laptop and after a few seconds the connection times out. Anyone know how the change the timeout time ?

diandtom, I wish I could help. We just got Colleen setup on G-Mail from AOL and that seems to be working OK for her.

[Bruce and Jenna]

I messed around with Tbird for a while. Couldn't get it to work, so stuck with Windows Live Mail.

[dog_soldier]

i use Thunderbird mail on Ubuntu Linux.
on Linux you click on edit then go to preference. when the new box pops up click on network and disk space. you can change it there.
if you still have problems you might want to check here at there support page Support | Mozilla Messaging

[dog_soldier]

disregard the link above .
here is the forum for Mozilla Thunderbird; mozillaZine Forums

[popgoeswease]

diandtom,

I have been using Thunderbird for a while on various machines with various operating systems. Who are you using for mail, ie Google, Hotmail, earthlink, etc. What is your operating system? Which version of Thunder bird do you have? What type of Internet link are you using, DSL, dial up, cable, satellite? What is the exact symptom that occurs to give you "after a few seconds the connection times out"?

Regards,

[JoeT]

I've used Thunderbird for a long time on XP and now on WIN 7. No timeout issues. I just use the default settings.

[diandtom]

I cannot find what venison of Thunderbird mail that I have. I am using it with Windows 7 and on embarqmail. I have looked under tools and accounts and cannot find anything for timeout settings.

[Wayne M]

Go to Tools, Account Settings, and check the server settings. Change the "Check for new messages every.." to a suitable time for you. I use 2 minutes. I want to know when someone is sending me an email, not 15 minutes from now. It mat be that the setting is to long a time and Embarqmail is timing out due to inactivity.

[diandtom]

It times out within 10 seconds. If you are typing it will stop you until you tell it ok and then you got another 10 sec.

[diandtom]

I can send out Thunderbird mail just fine. It is the recieve part that is causing my problem. I am using pop.embarqmail and tried embarqmail.com and it still does not work. I have emailed Thunderbird mail and got no reply yet. I also tried to get on the forum but that not working also. It giving errors and will not post.

[Ron & Dee]

I'm using version 2 and received a notice several days ago that they were no longer going to support it.

I have been a little bit leery of downloading version 3 because when I donwloaded version 2, I lost all of my saved email addresses.

How do I save my email addresses if I encounter the same problem when I download version 3?

Thanks,

Ron

[diandtom]

I am using verison 3 . I guess they are not supporting it anymore as I have emailed them and got no answere back.

[diandtom]

It is Thunderbird mail verison 3 and I finally got it !!! it was set to port 25 and the default 110 I changed the port to the default.