Hi, this is puzzling me and I'm really hoping someone out there can help; I use Portable Thunderbird 8.0 - I may need to upgrade, I know, but I'm worried that my zindus plugin, and some others won't work. I'm running it on a windows 7 laptop, from the main hard drive (planning to move it onto a portable, but haven't got that far yet...).
I have four accounts set up at the moment, all pop3, and until yesterday afternoon, all were working fine. Suddenly, one is not longer working - my main work address, of course! No errors, and no crash, just no activity. I open Activity Manager and I see, when get all mail, all the other accounts say X messages to download, or no messages to download; but this account, no indication that it even exists.
I tried jiggling the account - I changed the login and then back again, in case the account settings would rebuild, but that didn't help. I deleted all .msf files in the account's mailbox. I rebooted, restarted Thunderbird, etc., to no avail. I also set up the same account in Outlook, and it is working fine - I just don't like Outlook - which indicates that all the settings are fine (as they were yesterday when it was working). The only change I can think of between working and not working was Windows update, Definition update for Windows Defender KB915597.
Does anyone know anything else I can try, look at, or any other advice to make this work again? Thanks in advance,
Ian
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Well, still curious about this, but no longer urgent. It started working again. The only two things I did, not related as far as I know, but could have been...
1. I archived some mail out of inbox directly via webmail.
2. I ran adaware and removed a trojan:
Description: c:\users\ian\appdata\local\temp\posce97.tmp Family Name: Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT Engine: 3 Clean status: Success Item ID: 1 Family ID: 0 MD5: 64be90378fc40117ea93dfb8fa5aec92
Just a few minutes after that, I suddenly was prompted for my password in thunderbird, and email started coming in. I love computers.
darn, spoke too soon.it worked for a moment, then nothing. i guess i'm on to upgrading, but not too pleased with, or confident in, that plan.
maybe you got reinfected?
You can also look at the add-ons you have and check which ones are up to date or not. I did that first, and noticed some stuff that wasn't updated, and looked for other similar add-ons. Surprisingly, I found newer add-ons from other folks that combined a couple of my old ones, or found current analogues.
Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.