I'm not having this problem with Thunderbird, but I'm running it under 
Ubuntu. Occasionally the sending of a message will hang or saving it to 
my sent folder will get stuck, but closing and restarting Thunderbird 
usually fixes the problem. I also pretty much use Thunderbird 
exclusively with Gmail.

I'm not being of much help, but you may try reinstalling Thunderbird or 
removing and recreating your Yahoo account. Actually, since it's just a 
problem with sending mail, you could try removing and reentering the 
SMTP settings. It could also be a computer, network or proxy issue.

Good luck, and I hope you figure it out!

On 14/03/17 14:31, Ana G wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> I'm having trouble sending messages from Thunderbird, and I'm wondering
> if the problem is my system or Thunderbird.
>
>
> When I send a message with ctrl+enter, I get an error message telling me
> my internet has timed out. This makes no sense because I often have a
> web page open when I get this error. One thing I have noticed is that
> I'm much, much more likely to get this message if another message is
> open. for example, if I read a message, hit ctrl+r to reply, write a few
> lines or paragraphs, then hit ctrl+enter, I get the error until I hit
> alt+tab and close the message I'm replying to. That said, I sometimes
> get the error even after I close the other message. Sometimes saving the
> message I'm trying to send fixes the problem, and every once in a while,
> I just have to start over. So far (knock on wood), it hasn't happened in
> my Exchange account, but it does happen in my SBC Global accounts, which
> are Yahoo Mail. I don't send mail from my Gmail account very often, so I
> don't remember if the problem happens there.
>
>
> The reason I'm wondering if it's a Thunderbird issue is that it started
> happening after the news story about Thunderbird no longer being
> maintained by Mozilla. The problems started one or two updates after that.
>
>
> I'm using Windows 10 and Jaws 17.
>
>
> Is anyone else having these issues?
>
>
> Ciao
>
>
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