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Cannot Send Mail from Gmail in Thunderbird

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I have downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird, its the newest version. I can receive mail but cannot reply or send. I use a Mac mini, Mac OS X 10.10.1. Attached is a screenshot with the error code. Help is much appreciated!!

-Jon

I have downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird, its the newest version. I can receive mail but cannot reply or send. I use a Mac mini, Mac OS X 10.10.1. Attached is a screenshot with the error code. Help is much appreciated!! -Jon
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The smtp port number is wrong. 993 is for incoming mail.

All of my gmail smtp settings use 465.

How did yours get that way?

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I think we need to see your account settings.

Go to Help|Troubleshooting Information Clear the checkbox labelled "Include account names" Click the button "Copy text to clipboard"

In your reply here, paste (ctrl+v, or right-click|paste)

Check it over for anything you'd like not to share. You can remove all the printer and font stuff, since it isn't likely to be relevant.

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Application Basics

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 31.3.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0
   Profile Folder: Show in Finder
   Application Build ID: 20141127140543
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (imap) imap.gmail.com:993, SSL, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: smtp.gmail.com:993, SSL, passwordCleartext, true
 Crash Reports
 Extensions
 Important Modified Preferences
   Name: Value
     browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
     browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
     browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false
     browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false
     extensions.lastAppVersion: 31.3.0
     gfx.blacklist.direct2d: 3
     gfx.blacklist.layers.direct3d9: 3
     mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1
     mail.spotlight.enable: true
     mail.spotlight.firstRunDone: true
     mail.spotlight.global_reindex_time: 1420042599
     mailnews.database.global.datastore.id: a5a74183-d43d-ca43-9b2d-5bafb1a3b91
     network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true
     places.database.lastMaintenance: 1419976303
     places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858
     plugin.importedState: true
 Graphics
     Vendor ID: 0x1002
     Device ID: 0x6741
     WebGL Renderer: false
     GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 OpenGL
     AzureCanvasBackend: quartz
     AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0
     AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none
     AzureContentBackend: quartz
 JavaScript
 Incremental GC: 1
 Accessibility
   Activated: 0
   Prevent Accessibility: 0
 Library Versions
     Expected minimum version
     Version in use
     NSPR
     4.10.6
     4.10.6
     NSS
     3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
     3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
     NSS Util
     3.16.2.3
     3.16.2.3
     NSS SSL
     3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
     3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
     NSS S/MIME
     3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
     3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
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Chosen Solution

The smtp port number is wrong. 993 is for incoming mail.

All of my gmail smtp settings use 465.

How did yours get that way?

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Mine got that way because I manually set up my accounts, since the auto set up has never worked for me. I must have just thought I saw that one or something to get it up there. However, when I changed the port to 465, an error message kept coming up saying --------@gmail.com is not an IMAP 4 server.

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Thanks for your help thunderbird is now working.

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No, 465 is for outgoing aka SMTP

Tools|Account Settings

Last "account" in the list is "Outgoing Server (SMTP)"

Select that, select the gmaill smtp entry, click "Edit", change its port setting to 465.

And you'll need to go back to the incoming account and make sure that's set to use port 993.

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Alright thanks!!