Can receive emails but cannot send them with Office 365 university account
Hello,
I am trying to set up my university email account to work with thunderbird. I am using the following settings.
Server Settings
IMAP Mail Server Server Name: outlook.office365.com Port: 993 User Name: name@university.com Connection security: SSL/TLS Authentication method: = OAuth2
SMTP Server Settings Server Name: smtp.office365.com Port: 587 Connection security: STARTTLS Authentication method: OAuth2 User Name: name@university.com
The error that I get when sending emails is
Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.office365.com timed out. Try again.
I can receive emails with no problems.
I tried many different solutions:
- changing the SMTP server settings
- disabling the firewall
- changing Linux distribution
- reinstalling thunderbird
- removing and adding again the account
- removing and adding again the password
But nothing work. I really like thunderbird and would like to keep it (the web version of outlook is not great in my opinion)
Could you help me?
Thanks in advance
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“Sending failed. Message couldn’t be sent because the connection to the outgoing server SMTP timed out. Try again.”
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