There is a discussion about this at Ubuntu brainstorm, but I think it's a bug because it works in firefox.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12934/ -- Thunderbird does not honor network-manager offline state https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384749 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs