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| Thread ID: 54277 | 2005-02-08 08:16:00 | Thunderbird wont respond (Linux) | rmcb (164) | Press F1 |
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| 322683 | 2005-02-08 08:16:00 | We have a home network setup consisting of an old pc running Ipcop Linux firewall. It has a 56k isa modem & a network card connected to a 5 port switch. We then have 2 machines both running Mandrake 10 connected to this switch. Both of these machines run Firefox & Thunderbird. I had set my wifes machine to autorun Thunderbird as soon as it finishes booting up so that when I connect to the net during the day it would check her email. Thunderbird is set to check for mail when it starts and then every 10 minutes. The problem we have is if Ipcop is not connected to the net Thunderbird will pop up the error ¨Could not connect to pop3.free.net.nz¨ as expected, but will then freeze up after you click ok to that message. The only way to fix this is to close Thunderbird & restart it. If Ipcop is connected to the net before this machine boots or trys to check mail everything is ok. My machine which is setup the same does not suffer this problem. We use Thunderbird 1.0 Thanks |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 322684 | 2005-02-08 08:59:00 | I am not entirely clear from your post - does IPCop run dod (dial-on-demand)? -- so are you saying dod works for your CP but not your wife's one? | johnd (85) | ||
| 322685 | 2005-02-08 09:00:00 | I am not entirely clear from your post - does IPCop run dod (dial-on-demand)? -- so are you saying dod works for your CP but not your wife's one? Sorry - that's "your PC" |
johnd (85) | ||
| 322686 | 2005-02-08 23:24:00 | No, we are not using dial on demand. We have to manually connect before using the net at all. Thanks |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 322687 | 2005-02-09 00:45:00 | When you have got the dreaded message, open a terminal and (as root) do tail -20 /var/log/messages. Tbird might be repeatedly trying to connect ... but messages will probably give a hint. Have a look at Thunderbird's configuration file (locate *.conf | grep -i bird if all else fails ;)), or see if there's a hidden configuration file in each home directory. There ought to be a setting for how often it retries to connect. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 322688 | 2005-02-10 06:55:00 | tail -20 /var/log/messages This has no mention of thunderbird sorry! What does this do?? locate *.conf | grep -i bird I can stop t/bird from checking for mail at startup and change how often it checks for mail but disabling either kind of defeats what we are trying to do. Thanks |
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