Comments on: Thunderbird Headaches

By: Trisha

Trisha — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:32:07 +0000

I’m having problems with Thunderbird too. I don’t know what to do. I asked for help at their forums, but so far no one has said anything that has helped: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3332761#3332761

By: Myra

Myra — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:34:34 +0000

For your Thunderbird random freezes/hangs, you might want to try the troubleshooting tips here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Application_not_responding

Good luck.

By: Char

Char — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:05:50 +0000

I can now send and receive from my ISP email and I moved my domain email to Gmail which is working fine. I really think it is my computer/Thunderbird. It keeps hanging randomly. Chances are the only solution is to remove and reload.

At least I am functioning now.

By: Jimson Lee

Jimson Lee — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:39:11 +0000

If it is not your SMTP settings, then you have an email in the “outbox” and not “Sent item” that has a corrupt header.

You could delete the earliest email in the “Outbox”, then restart your client, and that should get the mail flowing again.

By: What is?

What is? — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:49:14 +0000

You should be getting an error message when you try to send mail and Tbird fails. Post that error message. You can start Tbird for the command lint to get more feeback. Also, if you backiup ~/,thunderbird than your accound info is stored.

By: Ingo

Ingo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:33:06 +0000

..what you are used from “Thunderbird” of course. Sorry.

By: Ingo

Ingo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:31:49 +0000

No idea what the problem is. But I can recommend Foxmail if you need a fast and simple email program with features you are used to from Firefox. I switched to it 3 month ago with my private notebook and I am happy with it. I do use Outlook in my office.

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:59:22 +0000

If you have multiple email account in Thunderbird and none of them are working, that gotta be the ISP problem. Or your anti-virus/firewall program is blocking the outgoing mail.

I love Thunderbird. I can travel with it and sync the mail between two computers. Recently, I add Google calendar on Thunderbird + Lighting. I can take Google calendar with me off line and sync it when I get online.

Thunderbird is great!

By: Hsien Lei

Hsien Lei — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:41:45 +0000

About a year ago I switched to Gmail from Thunderbird because I was having no end of problems with the email client. It’s also nice to be able to access all my emails at one go even without being at my own computer.

By: Jimson Lee

Jimson Lee — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:50:16 +0000

My guess is your ISP requires authentication to send out mail.

Try switching your SMTP settings with Gmail settings.

NOTE it does not use the conventional port 25, and you have to add your Gmail credentials. Check POP settings on Gmail documentation