I should have added that I'm running thunderbird 2.0.0.19, but every
release of thunderbird seems to suffer from poor handling of IMAP
connections over slowish links. Works fine on a decent connection.
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[gutsy] thunderbird-2.0.0.6 locking-up while downloading messages from an IMAP
I can reliably reproduce this problem. I believe it's a connection
timeout somewhere in the IMAP message download. It only happens when I'm
using a slow connection (less than around 100kb), and then any new mail
over about 10k will cause Thunderbird to hang. The network monitor shows
that all
Updated tag to imap. Please update info as requested so we can better
help you.
** Tags added: imap
** Tags removed: mt-needtester
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[gutsy] thunderbird-2.0.0.6 locking-up while downloading messages from an IMAP
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150571
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Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 RC or later?
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[gutsy] thunderbird-2.0.0.6 locking-up while downloading messages from an IMAP
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150571
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Mine is not locking up, but is indefinitely popping up error messages
saying that the IMAP server is not available (attached screenshot). On a
small number of cases it actually fetches mail from this account, and
works for the other accounts, but is consistently failing to find any
messages from
I'm also seeing IMAP issues with thunderbird after a dist-upgrade from
feisty.
I've taken a look at the dovecot IMAP server running on Centos 4 and
there doesn't appear to be many connections coming through from the
desktops running Thunderbird.
Thunderbird is very busy doing something judging
Ok lets start with your bug, have you tried using a new profile? alot of
problems after upgrade are caused by profile corruption.
The info you recieved is correct however, there hasnt been any stop in
thunderbird devel and they are still pushing releases shortly after firefox
releases, Tbitrd
OK we'll stop development talk here but remember, you asked.
I am using a new profile. This is a fresh install of Gutsy Beta, not an
upgrade.
The lock-up is a real problem. I have been working around the problem by
setting thunderbird to *not* download messages at startup but as soon as
a new
I have observed this with both a feisty-gutsy upgrade and fresh install
of gutsy beta. I am currently running with a completely fresh install of
gutsy beta with updates applied as they come through.
My information comes from two sources.
1) The reason given for the creation of a new organisation
