dl wrote: Failed to connect

greg — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:40:00 +0000

dl wrote:

Failed to connect to server xxxxxxx

Was this working fine before AND you have not changed ANYTHING since it was working? That is changed ISP, changed or updated your Firewall, changed any settings on your mail server or if it's an ISP /other one you have no control over has someone else changed something? You still own the account?

It is possible the server where the email is hosted at is having connection issues.
So is the domain name the email goes to accessible via http?
Try typing it into your browser address bar, eg, for "no-one@blahblah.com" you would type "blahblah.com" into your address bar.

Have you changed any Thunderbird settings or updated it? This is a common reason as some firewalls wont allow software (Thunderbird) to access the internet when an update has been performed to that software. They class the new software version as a new program, rather than an updated one.
The easy solution is to disable the firewall, any anitvirus software and other spy ware, hack etc software you have running and try again.

If this fixes it, turn them on one by one until you cannot get emails again then fix the software that caused the issue.

I can't think of anything else