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When adding an attachment to thunderbird email I get a server timed out message

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When composing email message using thunderbird and including an attachment then hitting send I get a server timed out message. Size of attachment can be very small, ver large, or more than one attachment. How to fix?

When composing email message using thunderbird and including an attachment then hitting send I get a server timed out message. Size of attachment can be very small, ver large, or more than one attachment. How to fix?

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Anti-Virus may be causing this: Do you scan emails before sending ? Suggest you switch off scanning outgoing emails and retry.

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disabled outgoing email scan (using Norton) but this did not solve problem. Cannot originate, reply to, or forward any email without getting error msg "server timed out". My web mail is through verizon server.

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re :Cannot originate, reply to, or forward any email

So it's not just emails with attachments, you cannot send anything?

Please post this info: In Thunderbird

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information
  • click on 'Copy text to clipboard' button

in this forum question:

  • right click in a 'Post a Reply' text box and select 'Paste'
  • edit/remove all info on fonts and printers but nothing else.