Setting the Thunderbird timeout

[hiker056]

I started using ypops with thunderbird about a month ago and am able to send and receive e-mail just fine. I do always have a problem sending large attachments (> 3 MB). I can send attachments that total < 3 MB no problem. But i tried to send 3 jpg pictures totalling about 3.8MB and i get the following error:

"Sending of Message failed
the message could not be sent because connection to SMTP server xxxx failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connection. ...."

I checked the ypops log and it appears that the mail actually is sent. The mail does actually get to the parties i sent it to. So there is no real problem except for this message and the fact that the message does not get copied to my thunderbird 'sent' folder.

[hiker056]

I take it with no replies after 125 views that there is no answer for this problem....

[dbeusee]

I think you need to increase the server timeout in the email program.

-Don

[hiker056]

Thanks. I Looked in the thurnderbird account settings for the outgoing server (SMTP) and the account settings for the yahoo account and didn't see any place to enter any sort of timeout value.

[dbeusee]

As I recall, TB doesn't make it easy. Please search the forum - there was a solution posted long ago on how to do it. If someone finds the post and gives a link, I'll make it sticky.

-Don

[hiker056]

Thanks for saying the answer was hard to find. It helped me find the answer.
I googled and found some discussion about adding a value to TB about:config called mail.server.serverx.timeout.
I added one for my yahoo server for about 120 seconds and that took care of the problem.

[dbeusee]

Cool, but you should set it to at least 10 minutes (600 seconds). I'll make this discussion sticky.

-Don

[cmniii]

In response to the message below: I was suing Yahoo Beta, installed Thunderbird & ypops and everything worked great for 72 hours at which point I started getting a Yahoo error window - actually, a small browser with no controls, but with a logging in to Yahoo mail. After reading these messages, I changed back to Yahoo "regular" and it's back working - but a timeout does keep occurring with a message popup.

My question is this: How do I find the "TB about:config called mail.server.serverx.timeout" and make the fix?

Any help would be most appreciated!

C. M. Novess III
cmniii@yahoo.com

Thanks for saying the answer was hard to find. It helped me find the answer.
I googled and found some discussion about adding a value to TB about:config called mail.server.serverx.timeout.
I added one for my yahoo server for about 120 seconds and that took care of the problem.

[sbutk]

Cool, but you should set it to at least 10 minutes (600 seconds). I'll make this discussion sticky.

-Don

I'm having what seems to be almost the exact same problem. When I try forwarding any attachment (even if it is small and consists of only a single line of text), I get the following sequence of popup windows:

1. A window with "Connected to 127.0.0.1... "
2. "Delivering email" (and a blue progress bar that successfully counts up to 100%)
3. A window with:

"YPOPS! Yahoo error
There was a problem. There is a problem with one or more of the attached files. Please remove and reattach your files and try again. Your message has not been sent."

4. Another window with:
"Send Message Error.
Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server 127.0.0.1 failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your SMTP server setting is correct and try again, or else contact your network administrator."


I have already tried your suggestion to the other user of changing Thunderbird's server timeout to 600 seconds (and even 6000 seconds), but to no avail.

Any idea what else could be wrong, or what I might be missing?

Thanks, Steve

[dbeusee]

Steve, please send me (via email) your ypops.log, ypops.ini, and all files beginning with your yahoo account name. You can find these files in C:\Program Files\YPOPs folder.

-Don

[dbeusee]

Steve, you tried to attach a "message", which is not supported yet. You need to forward the message inline instead of as attachment. The next version of ypops will detect this condition whether there is a filename present or not.

-Don