[TriLUG] Speaking of Thunderbird in Debian..

[Jason Tower]

Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Brian Henning wrote:
> 
> 
>>...
>>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. ...
>>Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> I've had similar problems connecting to a particular vendor's brain-dead
> IMAP server (which will remain nameless - no, it's not Exchange).  The
> server would have similar problems with sessions that the server had
> disconnected, but Mozilla Mail (at the time, and later Thunderbird)
> wouldn't correctly handle that disconnection, and would seem to still be
> talking to the remote server.  In the Mozilla days, I'd simply check
> "Work Offline" (there was a power-plug looking shortcut for it in the
> status bar), and then go back "Online", and it would them be able to
> check the mail.  Logically, from my perspective, this was the quickest
> and simplest way to forcibly disconnect and reconnect to the mail
> server.  Thunderbird didn't used to have this exact feature built in,
> but you could add it with an extension.  I think it may be in the latest
> version, I don't think I had to add an extension for it, and I don't see
> it in my list of current extension.  Check for the power-plug looking
> icon on the left side of the Status Bar, or look for an "Offline" menu
> under the "File" menu.
> 
> Best of luck!
> Aaron S. Joyner

there's an advanced setting that controls how many connections tb makes 
to the imap server, the default is 4.  try setting this value lower and 
see what happens.

jason