[TriLUG] Speaking of Thunderbird in Debian..

[David McDowell]

I have not experienced this issue at all.  I have Thunderbird on FC1
running in a VNC session.  I keep it up almost 100% always.  The VNC
session has been running for 72 days (the uptime on the machine) and
until 2 days ago when I shutdown Thunderbird so I could run sa-learn
--spam and --ham on my mail folders and move some data around, I have
not had any issues.  I connect to 2 IMAP accounts with my TB profile. 
I never have to click the Get Mail button b/c I set it to check every
10 minutes.  I figure this is often enough, and even so with the IMAP,
it seems to show up faster than that anyway.

The only problem that I have had is when putting unread messages in
the Trash, then emptying Trash.  It doesn't show empty.  I click on
it, the folder is empty, however it's label is bold and shows X number
of messages in it.  I leave the folder to another folder, go directly
back to Trash and all is well again.  It's as if it's not reading the
Trash file properly on occasion... but it's my Trash, so who cares. 
:)

laters,
David McD


On 5/20/05, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> 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
> --
> TriLUG mailing list        : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/
> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
> TriLUG PGP Keyring         : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
>