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Why does Thunderbird hold onto my emails after I hit send, and put them in a queue for many hours?

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fischerle
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Since the latest updates of Thunderbird for Mac, when I hit Send (not Send later), the email does not send but goes into a queu and often will not send at all unless I quit and restart the app. What's the issue? I have changed none of my settings and it never used to do this.

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Since the latest updates of Thunderbird for Mac, when I hit Send (not Send later), the email does not send but goes into a queu and often will not send at all unless I quit and restart the app. What's the issue? I have changed none of my settings and it never used to do this. thanks!

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Matt
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click the blue monitors in the bottom left corner of the screen to place Thunderbird in online mode so mail sends immediately and mail comes in on schedule.

fischerle
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Thanks for the reply Matt. Unfortunately that's not the issue. It's online and emails are coming in just fine. Nothing goes out, it just sits in a queue. If I quit and restart the emails send. And while TBird has an Activity Manager function, that never shows emails in a qeueu, the way, say Apple Mail does. So no way to help the process along without quitting and restarting.

fischerle
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Went back to Apple mail. Not a server issue as all email immediately sends there. Bummer, prefer Thunderbird but it ain't working.