Thunderbird no longer send/recv'ing mail

[Chris Jones]

Dan Trainor wrote:
> David Curry wrote:
> 
>> list reader wrote:
>>
>>> dant- It sounds as though one of your POP accounts IMAP account may 
>>> be at
>>> fault here. If it truely happens on a regular basis, (every 15
>>> minutes) maybe one of your accounts is a bit slow ... or worse ...
>>> you've got a 30 meg attachment that needs more time to come down.
>>>
>>> dan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:14:45 -0700, dan <info at hostinthebox.net> wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> dan wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> Hello, all -
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been using Thunderbird for quite a while now, and I love it.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, every 15-20 minutes or so, Thunderbird stops 
>>>>> sending/receiving
>>>>> mail.  If I hit the "send/recv" button, it's as if the button is not
>>>>> pressed.  If I try to send an email after that 15-20 minutes, the
>>>>> message just says "Sending Message...".  I end up re-starting
>>>>> Thunderbird 15-20 times a day.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, what did you do about it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> -dant
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's retarded, I didn't give any more information:
>>>>
>>>> version 1.0 (20041206) on FC2.  POP3 for 3 accounts, and IMAP for 
>>>> one of
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -dant
>>>>
> 
> Well, regardless of any of that....  Thanks for the time, "list reader", 
> however, with any other MUA I have no problems whatsoever.  It seems 
> that this situation is specific to Thunderbird on Linux.  Right now, I'm 
> using Thunderbird in win32 (version 1.0 (20041206)), and it works fine.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem?
> 
> Thanks
> -dant

I also see this problem - currently, I only use Tbird on FC3 although I 
do have it on my Win2k box. I had put it down to the fact that my fedora 
mailbox currently has about 60k messages - a reminder that when I have 
finished reading to-day's backlog, I must archive about 40k of these.

Another thing I notice with Tbird is that although I have configured it 
to collect mail automatically, it does not do this (and never has even 
in the beta and pre-release versions last year).

Otherwise, I find Tbird an excellent mail and news client.


-- 
Chris Jones