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Thunderbird connection timed out, after opendns config


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So Thunderbird worked fine for me right until I configured my DNS settings to that of OpenDns; 208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220.

I'm using Mac OS Lion. For those who are familiar with with OpenDNS, I also installed the openDNS updater .app so that it constantly syncs with my dynamic IP. As soon as I did this; I realized that my Thunderbird App would time out each time it tried connecting to the server. I even double checked it by removing the dns ip addresses and restarting Thunderbird; only then was thunderbird working.

Any ideas on how I may simultaneously use Thunderbird and the OpenDNS settings without any collision?

Thank you.

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Is OpenDNS resolving your email provider's server names? e.g. when your computer is set to resolve DNS via OpenDNS, can you successfully ping your email provider's POP/IMAP & SMTP servers?

Offhand it sounds like OpenDNS isn't resolving the server names for some reason, you may need to take that up with OpenDNS. Outside of that, the only workaround I can think of is to force Thunderbird to use its own DNS settings, maybe via a Proxy or some other setting (not sure exactly how you'd go about this).

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