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An error occurred sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH

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katiesunbird
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I cannot send emails through thunderbird. Here are the various error messages:

An error occurred sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready..

An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: ([192.168.254.8]) [98.19.20.239]:57558 is currently not permitted to relay through this server.. Please check the message recipient katiesunbird@gmail.com and try again.

cant sent says "unable to veryify smtp server mail.starrynight.com is unknown. smtp server may need to be reconfigured"

I cannot send emails through thunderbird. Here are the various error messages: An error occurred sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready.. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: ([192.168.254.8]) [98.19.20.239]:57558 is currently not permitted to relay through this server.. Please check the message recipient katiesunbird@gmail.com and try again. cant sent says "unable to veryify smtp server mail.starrynight.com is unknown. smtp server may need to be reconfigured"

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christ1
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/problems-sending-and-receiving-messages

katiesunbird
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I know there was an error, that is why I asked you what the error message MEANS. What is the error?

the-edmeister
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moving to the Thunderbird questions queue - from Firefox questions

christ1
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An error occurred sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1

You're trying to send a message to an IMAP server. The trouble with this is, IMAP is for receiving messages.