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Thunderbird doesn't send via gmail

joelebecker
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Just hangs up

error message: Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.googlemail.com timed out. Try again.

Just hangs up error message: Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.googlemail.com timed out. Try again.

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Matt
Matt
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Do you have an anti virus scanning outgoing mail? Try disabling it.

joelebecker
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Matt said

Do you have an anti virus scanning outgoing mail? Try disabling it.

Next Time I rebooted it went away. This has happened before and when/if it does I'll try your solution.

Thanks,

Joel