yes on port 119. i do not want to use my professional email address (or SMTP settings) to send message on newsgroups. for MS, Borland, eclipse and other newsgroups servers, it works perfectly without setting a SMTP server. i do not use gmail to send message via thunderbird... i use gmail only for mailing list as thunderbird does not work :-( On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Al <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Port 119? > > Try your ISP mail account directly. Maybe gmail is blocking you. > > Can you access and other newsgroups? > > You'd be better off working with the Thunderbird forum for this problem. > It's not a php problem. > > > Alain Roger wrote: > >> this is what i've done even at home but sending message fails everytime. >> even if my SMTP server is well configured :-( >> >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Al <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >>> Alain Roger wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> i tried to configure Thunderbird to read and post news on PHP.net >>>> forums. >>>> I'm able to read messages but not to post some. >>>> >>>> Does anyone already succeed in it ? >>>> Do to security reasons at work, personal email usage is strictly >>>> forbidden >>>> now so i'm not able to use gmail, yahoo or hotmail anymore. >>>> >>>> thanks a lot >>>> >>>> >>>> Create a new account >>> Select newsgroup >>> enter news.php.net >>> >>> I used Thunderbird for this message. >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >>> >> >> > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Alain ------------------------------------ Windows XP SP2 PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005 Apache 2.2.4 PHP 5.2.4 C# 2005-2008
