[sclug] Fwd: Thunderbird problems

[Stuart Ward]

You might try testing that the pop connection works ok. use Telnet to
connect to the server.

Simple instructions here:
http://www.anta.net/misc/telnet-troubleshooting/pop.shtml

-- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:52 PM, n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com
<haughtonomous at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone help with a Thunderbird 2 problem (Ubuntu 7.10)?
>
> It's all been working sweetly for a long time; I was using POP to get mail
> from my googlemail account, then I changed to IMAP a few months ago and that
> was fine too until recently. Last week Thunderbird stopped dead in its
> tracks and now refuses to send or collect anything - I just get the
> revolving icon cursor. I can prepare new mail, read existing, search and all
> that, but no send/receive capability. There's nothing relevant I can see in
> the usual logs, my browser and broadband connection work normally, and
> changing it back to POP at both ends makes no difference. Removing and
> reinstalling Thunderbird has no effect. As far as I am aware I am fully
> patched with the latest Ubuntu updates, and googling for information has
> yielded nothing of interest.
>
> Lastly, I haven't changed any email account settings at either end, apart
> from switching from IMAP to POP this evening to see if it made a difference.
> It didn't.
>
> There is something else that may be related. Last week Synaptic started
> behaving strangely - after I have selected packages for download it
> challenges me for my password, but when I click OK the password dialog
> appears to freeze instead of letting me watch the progress of the
> download/install process. The download/install process goes on in the
> background while I stare at a frozen 'enter password' dialog. Only when the
> download/install process has completed in the background, does the password
> dialog close. This isn't the 'normal' Synaptic behaviour which used let me
> select packages, then  challenge, then close the dialog and download/install
> the packages, as you would expect to happen.
>
> Has anyone any ideas on what may be going on? It all seems a little bizarre.
>
> TIA
>
> Neil.
>
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