[TriLUG] new "feature" in Thunderbird on Ubuntu 18.04

[Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG]

Ideas:

Have you tried to send in another fashion, e.g, from a gmail account?
If the address is being recalled from an address book, enter the address by hand
Set up a new user account and a new user therein. See if you can send.

Good luck.

--
Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
     Email: RogerB at bronord.com
     Web Site: www.bronord.com

On 11/15/18 12:16 PM, Pete Soper via TriLUG wrote:
> Starting a few weeks ago I stopped being able to send myself email
> messages with Thunderbird 60.2 on a 64 bit Ubuntu 18.04 system that has
> regular updates applied unconditionally (i.e. whatever the standard
> Ubuntu update system uses to periodically get permission to update I
> tell it "yes, I'm willing to deal with subtle regressions that mght
> affect my mental health.")
>
> When "send" is hit for a message to my main email address a dialog box
> comes up to say "Sending of the message failed", another dialog comes up
> labeled "Sending message" with a green progress line endlessly
> circulating from left to right until I click "OK" on the first dialog.
> Nothing shows up in /var/log/syslog, nor /tmp. The size of /var/log
> doesn't change even after a dozen failed attempts (figuring it would
> grow by a block with enough error messages in a log file someplace).
> I've also piped find . -f file into ls before/after to find the files
> that are new or changed in size under the Thunderbird ".default" file
> but can't find any clues there.
>
> Email messages to all addresses except the one that I'm using within
> Thunderbird are unaffected.
>
> Could somebody help me find the bread crumbs to get a clue about what's
> happening? Is there some kind of logging mode I could enable with SMTP?
>
> I haven't tried an older Thunderbird version yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
> (Why would I need to send myself email? I have a note system using email
> filters keyed off character sequences in the subject line of messages
> and this has hosed that tool.)
>
>