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

[Pete Soper via TriLUG]

On 11/15/18 4:52 PM, Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG wrote:

> Ideas:
>
> Have you tried to send in another fashion, e.g, from a gmail account?
Mail from any other computer, phone, etc, is not affected. No address
book in use.
> 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.

Aha. I have a biz email account in the same browser and setting the
"from" to that address prevents a message to that same address from
getting through. It fails with the same symptoms. So my guess that this
is a new "feature" might be right. If this turns out to the be the case
I hope it can be disabled.

Thanks,
Pete
>
> 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.)
>>
>>
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