On 03/01/11 13:02, Peter J Murray wrote:
> We are an MSU email shop and many are on Thunderbird 3.1.7 (the latest 
> as of now).
>
> I'm getting reports that mail.msu.edu times out on putting messages in 
> the sent folder and/or sending outgoing messages, causing much 
> frustration.  Has anyone else ran into this issue?
>
> Peter Murray
> James Madison
>

Have you tried turning logging on?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_logging_for_mail/news

I'll bet this will help but might be a pain to set up.  I did this a long
time ago so perhaps its gotten better.

--STeve Andre'