Thunderbird problem

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Fri Jul 12 11:17:05 EDT 2013


Go to Edit/Account Settings/<youur username>@comcast.net/Server Settings
Make sure that "Leave messages on server" is NOT checked.


On 07/10/2013 06:10 PM, Donald Leslie wrote:
> I regularly attended the meetings in Nashua until I moved away in 
> 2006. The mozilla community does not seem to respond to problems, so I 
> thought I would try here.
>
> Recently thunderbird started re-reading my entire Comcast mail inbox 
> when looking for new mail. It does not happen with gmail. Comcast is a 
> pop server and gmail is imap. How does thunderbird know that mail is 
> new and need to be read? Any suggestions?
>
> I am including the trouble shooting information that thunderbird 
> generates :
>
> Application Basics
>
> Name: Thunderbird
> Version: 17.0.6
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 
> Thunderbird/17.0.6
> Profile Directory: Open Directory
>
> (Local drive)
> Application Build ID: 2013051000
> Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
> Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
> Crash Reports: about:crashes
> Memory Use: about:memory
>
> Mail and News Accounts
> account1:
> INCOMING: account1, , (pop3) mail.comcast.net:110, alwaysSTARTTLS, 
> passwordCleartext
> OUTGOING: smtp.comcast.net:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true
>
> account2:
> INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
>
> account3:
> INCOMING: account3, , (imap) imap.googlemail.com:993, SSL, 
> passwordCleartext
> OUTGOING: smtp.googlemail.com:465, SSL, passwordCleartext, true
>
> Extensions
> Test Pilot for Thunderbird, 1.3.9, true, tbtestpilot at labs.mozilla.com 
> <mailto:tbtestpilot at labs.mozilla.com>
>
> Important Modified Preferences
>
> Name: Value
>
> browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
> browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
> browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false
> browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false
> extensions.lastAppVersion: 17.0.6
> mailnews.database.global.datastore.id: 
> a8d574ca-3cfb-4e4d-b031-9901685c4a1
> mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1
> network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true
> places.database.lastMaintenance: 1372950413
> places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 98466
>
> Graphics
>
> Adapter Description: Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Mesa DRI 
> Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile
> Vendor ID: nter
> Device ID: ile
> Driver Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.2
> WebGL Renderer: Blocked for your graphics driver version. Try updating 
> your graphics driver to version Not Mesa or newer.
> GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/1
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnhlug-discuss mailing list
> gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/


-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66  C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90



More information about the gnhlug-discuss mailing list