So, after messing around with these settings for about an hour, I got Thunderbird to finally send mail. I have had this problem before and I have decided to blog about this so everyone can take a shortcut. The correct settings for the q.com SMTP mail server as of 01/19/2010 are: Thunderbird q.com e-mail settings SMTP Server name: smtp.live.com Port: 25 Username: email … [Read more...] about Thunderbird Settings SMTP for q.com Mail