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OK, I changed the timeout setting, but my problem didn't go away. So it must be something else. My suspicion is that AT&T/Yahoo servers are intolerant of relaying, so they just make life harder when you're trying to do that. Thanks for your help.

Ah, that's not obvious about mailnews! Now, one more thing. In TB 17.0.7 there is no longer a "mailnews.timeout" setting. There is a "mailnews.tpctimeout" setting, however. That is defaulted to 100. Is that what I should be bumping up to 1000?

Thank you. That is completely straightforward. But what I don't understand is, of all the timeout settings in TB preferences, why am I changing a mailnews one? I'm not using it as a newsreader. This is an email issue.

Thanks. That's the best idea I've yet seen. Now, TB used to have a Preferences-level way to do that. It does not anymore (17.0.7). In the configuration file there are thirty or so preferences with the word "timeout" in their title. Which one am I supposed to be increasing? Can you be specific?

I've been getting this error for years, and managed to avoid it by using a Gmail outgoing server. But some some companies don't like getting mail from Gmail servers with a different From: and Sender: addresses. So I'm back to outbound.att.net, and I'm back to the old problem. The error is...