Can’t send mail from Thunderbird, goes to Outbox instead of Send

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All of a sudden, Thunderbird won’t send my emails. It puts them into the Outbox in the Local Folders account. I try moving them to the Draft folder and then sending them from there, but they just go back to the Outbox. Anybody, any suggestions? Please? Help?

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Oh, never mind. Turns out that — somehow — I was working offline. Unchecked Work Offline, and everything’s fine. Deep sigh.

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All emails go to Outbox, when there is one. Then they remain there less or more time, until they are sent, and then they are placed in the sent folder.

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Had a similar problem last week with my wife’s version of Thunderbird, couldn’t send emails. Couldn’t work out why (and she wasn’t working offline), until I discovered that the software had somehow changed its own settings (weird!) and was seeking a proxy connection! Changed it back to ‘no proxy’ and now emails go out. Very odd…

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[Maybe it would be worth changing the Subject line by appending ‘False Positive – Offline’ to save us reading through the whole page….]

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