Suddenly email will not send via thunderbird

[bendedknee]

All has been working fine for a long time, Send message error. "The configuration related to smtp.tpg.cam.au must be corrected" but suddenly stopped and gives this message. I tried TPG but after much talk, the line cut out while I was waiting to be put throuigh to someone else.

I see this is not an uncommon problem but there was no fix on the other threads.

Please can someone help me?

[bendedknee]

I reset my password as advised by tpg here: https://community.tpg.com.au/t5/Broadband-Internet/Cannot-Send-Email-Rejected-by-the-Server-Banned-f... but it made no difference.

[BasilDV]

Hi @bendedknee 

Welcome to the Community!

Just to confirm, only outgoing email is not working, right?

If yes, were you able to try to use TPG Post Office to check if outgoing email is working? If not, please try it first.

Once confirmed that the TPG email is working through TPG Post Office, then try to remove and reconfigure your TPG Email in Thunderbird.

Let us know how it goes.

BasilDV

[bendedknee]

Thanks @BasilDV,

I had checked already and I could send from the TPG mailbox but I'm in all sorts of trouble at Thunderbird. I managed to set up a new default mail so that I could delete the one that was giving me grief.

But now I have no accounts showing at all; not even the newly added one. I've gone onto Youtube to see what I am missing but have had no joy.

The new TPG account seems to set up OK but when I click 'done', the program gives me 'unablke to login at server'. IMAP or SMTP Username and password are correct (tried many times) but I just can't get the new account to complete so that I can test it.

BTW I've lost everything from the old account

[bendedknee]

@BasilDV,

I did a new install of Thunderbird and ran into all the same rejections. But when I changed Connection Security to None (I know, bad) it worked fine.

What does that tell you?

[bendedknee · Accepted solution]

@BasilDV

then I put it back to STARTTLS and this time my test went through OK.

[BasilDV]

Thank you for the information, @bendedknee 

Please send me a PM with your TPG username or customer ID number for us to check on this further.

How do I private message (PM) in the community?

BasilDV

[dbird]

I would also like to add that I too have just started having this issue today. The message I received was "The connection to server was reset". Thunderbird had just updated not long before this started. 

[BasilDV]

Hi @dbird 

Are you unable to send and receive email through Thunderbird?

Have you tried to use TPG Post Office to check if your TPG email is working?

If it's working through TPG P.O., then you may try to use another Email client or remove & reconfigure your email account.

Let us know how it goes.

BasilDV

[dbird]

Works fine through the Webmail interface

I have attempted to set my account up in the Windows Mail app, and it too seems to be failing to receive any emails.

Trying to re-add my account to Thunderbird using the TPG mail servers and auto detected settings, it gives me the error as in the attached image.

Configuration is as detected by server, and username and password are correct. 

Unfortunately this has caused me to lose all my saved emails for the account which I did not want to do. Thanks for that.