[TriLUG] Speaking of Thunderbird in Debian..

[Glenn Meyer]

I am having this same issue on Slackware 10.1 with Thunderbird.

Brian Henning wrote:

> I too am a previously Evolution-using convert to Thunderbird.  Lately 
> I've started running into a curious problem.  To skip the storytelling 
> and get straight to the nitty-gritty, go to the 4th paragraph.
>
> I run Debian Sarge on a twin Xeon machine.  It's pretty darn solid, 
> and I don't shut it down except when absolutely necessary [power 
> outages, bonkered cifs mounts, etc].  So all of my usual programs, 
> including Thunderbird, run for long stretches, usually without incident.
>
> Except now.  Not too long ago I came in one morning and hit the Get 
> Mail button, and it just sat there on "Connecting to mail-serv", doing 
> nothing.  I checked the server; nothing was amiss there.  I closed 
> Thunderbird, reopened it, and *whoosh* in comes all my mail.
>
> So it seems that after some unknown long amount of time of being open, 
> Thunderbird begins getting stuck when it tries to check mail.  It 
> doesn't crash; it just never actually connects to the mail server.
>
> Do other people see this behavior?  It's not a big deal to shut down 
> Thunderbird at the end of the day and relaunch it in the morning, but 
> I'm left wondering why I have to do that now, and if I can fix it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers and Happy Friday,
> ~Brian