Ubutu cox and Thunderbird?

[Stephen Partington]

Another thought is build your own mailserver for outbound email and connect
it to a Cox smart host. Then use internal DNS to route to it.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 9:16 AM Donald Mac McCarthy <mac at oscontext.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>   Instead of turning off VPN to send email, you could put in a more
> specific route so that you don't have to loose your VPN for all outgoing
> connections while sending mail.
>
> Mac
>
> mike enriquez wrote on 10/15/19 6:38 AM:
>
> I found my Cox smtp problem. Cox was having trouble with reverse DNS
> locating my IP address. I turned off my VPN and I can send out email.  I am
> going to turn on my VPN. If I have to choose I will select VPN over SMTP
> problems.
>
> Thanks to all who replied.
>
> Mike Enriquez
> On 10/14/19 7:38 PM, Thomas Scott wrote:
>
> Cox's email platform was recently upgraded, I'd check to see if you're
> using TLS instead of the SSL 3.0 and below. I would third the
> recommendation to get off of Cox's email platform, and I'm writing this
> sitting in Cox's Atlanta NOC. From what I've seen, our IT/Data side is
> moving away from anything customer facing that isn't automated and revenue
> friendly - e-mail is a part of that bit bucket.
>
>
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> Thomas Scott
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>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:26 PM mike enriquez <mylinux at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Cox has new policies. A friend in my area uses incredimail and he has the
>> same issues with cox.
>>
>> I can receive email but I cannot send it out. I am currently using Cox
>> Webmail.
>>
>> Thanks for the comments everyone.
>>
>> Mike Enriquez
>>
>> On October 14, 2019 at 8:52 PM Matthew Crews <mailinglists at mattcrews.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/14/19 10:55 AM, mike enriquez wrote:
>>
>> I have a fresh install of Ubuntu and Thunderbird email client.  The SMTP
>> server keeps timing out. Cox cannot help me because I have a Linux
>> computer. I changed the Port numbers and still I cannot send email out.
>>
>> I am sending this via Web-mail.
>>
>> Does anyone have and ideas I should try.
>>
>>
>> That's odd. I used Cox email for years with Thunderbird without issues.
>> Maybe they changed something on their back end?
>>
>> Are you sure you are connecting to the correct SMTP server?
>>
>> Also Cox should not care what operating system you are using.
>> Thunderbird is OS agnostic software. Their instructions for using
>> Thunderbird on Windows should be sufficient.
>>
>> -Matt
>>
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