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Thunderbird not starting after upgrade

Submitted by PollieXmas on December 30, 2008 - 4:47am

Hi Guys,

Thunderbird (TBP) did an automatic upgrade from v2.0.0.17 to v2.0.0.18 and now it does not start. The splash screen starts and then nothing else seems to happen.

When I tried re-installing TBP it mentioned that there is still an active/open version of TBP and thus cannot perform the install.

I'm planning to restart the pc so I can re-install but presume my problems are larger than a simple re-install.

Any ideas on where to start searching? I.e. can it be a corrupt prefs.js or index (msf) files?

Thanks
Paul

compacting on XP slow

Submitted by ottosykora on December 29, 2008 - 12:25pm

I have no idea what can cause this, but when I try compact folders when TB is sticked to an XP, it takes ages! Kind of 20 minutes for example.

Tha same job is done on an very slow laptop with w2k in seconds, on w98 similar even the usb port there is just 1.1 and all otherwise slow due to lack of ram.

Why does it take so long on the XP?

Not delivered e-mails!

Submitted by lucsus on December 23, 2008 - 8:20am

Hi!
I have a problem with my TB. I have installed it on my Pen Drive (Kingston Data Traveler II - 512MB). The problem is, that many of e-mails sent using TB have been never received by recipients - there is no rules. I am sure that everything is OK, all POP3, SMTP data are correct... I have imported settings from my Outlook Express.
- all e-mails sent from Outlook Express have been delivered without any problems - very fast
- e-mails sent from TB are shown as "sent", without any errors,
- recipients do not have my e-mail in SPAM folder,

slow start (again)

Submitted by ottosykora on December 19, 2008 - 10:50am

To day I had one of those events where the PTB takes alsmost for ever to start and fills the ram with ????.
I was not using any external apps for attachments etc.
I had custom setting in the attachment handling for jpg, doc, and pdf , all pointing to portable software on the same stick.

Incidently, I had just also the folder on the windows explorer where the PTB is located open. I could from here see that the mimetypes was just incrementing in size, starting from its few kb to over 500mb. During that time nothing happend otherwise, the PC was quite 'frozen'.

Mail sent from Outlook goes to inbox on Thunderbird on same account

Submitted by inlandsurfer1 on December 19, 2008 - 2:18am

Because I have to connect with my blackberry as well as do a few other things at work, i have to use both Outlook and Thunderbird portable (which is way faster). Whenever I send an email from outlook I see it as new received mail in my inbox (for the same account) instead of the sent box in Thunderbird. How do I fix this?

TBP - Password

Submitted by ggrosser on December 18, 2008 - 2:41pm

Is there anyway to set up Thunderbird where you can't read existing mail that is in the program with out the password being entered.

Basically, when I click on TBP, I had it set to where I had to enter my password every time I opened Thunderbird. Earlier I was wondering what happens if you click on cancel and you don't enter the password, could someone still read the existing email that has already been downloaded. I found out that it doesn't block you from see current email, it just won't download new email.

Thanks!

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