[Bug 483221] [NEW] thunderbird not 'POPping' email

[Jamie Dimmel]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 by doing a backup, then clean install. Since then I can't get Thunderbird to work with my email accounts. I was going to try out Evolution again, but since it still doesn't support multiple inboxes, I went back to Thunderbird. I copied over my thunderbird profile folder from my backup, installed Thunderbird, opened it and all seemed fine initially.
However, then I noticed I was missing a day's worth of email in my gmail account; I had started to pop that with Evolution when I went to try it out, but stopped and then deleted the evolution account (by the way I always leave my email on the server so it was still there at gmail.com). I tried deleting my gmail account in Thunderbird and recreating it, but now it won't POP my account at all, it says there are no new messages. I thought that the only way it knew there were new messages was because of the popstate.dat file. Since this didn't exist when I deleted the account, it should be popping all my email.
Not sure what I can do know, as I've tried deleting all my email accounts (hell, the whole directory) and recreating them, and there is still no new mail coming in (and there are no error messages about not finding the server or wrong port or password or anything liike that. (the only thing in the error console is about not processing the background color).
Brand new install of Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (20090817), on Ubuntu 9.10 (with all updates).
I guess I'll try completely uninstalling then reinstalling Thunderbird and recreating my email accounts from scratch again; see if that helps.
Thanks for any advice you can give me.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 15 11:11:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: mozilla-thunderbird (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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