Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Thunderbird SMTP Weirdness

I've been using OS X Mail for about a year and a half but have been become frustrated enough with it to try going back to Thunderbird. This has gone fairly smoothly, but after a few days (I have no idea why it didn't happen sooner) I started getting errors when I tried to send mail. I use my AT&T Yahoo! DSL SMTP server. The error message fit the pattern described here. The message referenced a Yahoo! help page, and following the instructions there solved the problem: each account I was trying to send from needed to be added to my DSL Yahoo! account.
The mystery s why this never was an issue with OS X Mail.

1 comment:

Chuck Beretz said...

Perhaps Tbird was recently patched?