Postal Letter

Why is Thunderbird (e-mail client) not working?

Hello! I set up my Thunderbird after... months, years?... of non-use, and it worked fine... for about a week. I can still view emails, and it updates regularly, but I can't send e-mails from it. The error message reads: "Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server imap.aim.com failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your SMTP server setting is correct and try again, or else contact your network administrator." I use AIM's e-mail service... are they making this outsourcing to Thunderbird or Outlook a paid service like Yahoo did now? Any help, WHATSOEVER that you can offer would be FANTASTIC. Thanks! By the way, Thunderbird is like Microsoft Outlook, only it's a Mozilla open-source... thingie. Thunderbird is to Outlook like Firefox is to Internet Explorer. It worked well sending messages for about a week.

Public Comments

1. I don't use AIM so I couldn't say for sure but if you used it a long time ago with success but now can't send email (although you are using the exact same settings) it sounds like AIM do not allow you to use an email client to send email. Either you need to change some settings to enable sending email (check their email help section) or you may need to use another email provider.