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SwampGas

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Thunderbird is starting to lose my endorsement. Apparently when you have a LOT of email, it chokes. I SO don't want to go back to outlook...but at least outlook works.

It will randomly stop displaying new message notifications...the folder doesn't show an updated message count and the popup notification doesn't happen. If you click on folders, the message list will be blank and it will lock up. It has to rebuild the summary files almost every time you open a folder.

Any ideas? I didn't get anywhere when researching the problem.
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> Thunderbird is starting to lose my endorsement. Apparently
> when you have a LOT of email, it chokes. I SO don't want to
> go back to outlook...but at least outlook works.

Thunderbird permanently broke the POP access to one of my Gmail addresses.

I went back to Outlook and haven't used Thunderbird since.
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> Any ideas? I didn't get anywhere when researching the
> problem.

Have you tried these?

Summary: backup profile, delete index (.msf) files, reopen Thunderbird:
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t11659-thunderbird-slow-false-messages.htmlhttp://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t11659-thunderbird-slow-false-messages.html</a>

Summary: Folder too large, compact it.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Inbox_stays_blankhttp://kb.mozillazine.org/Inbox_stays_blank</a>
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> > Thunderbird permanently broke the POP access to one of my
> > Gmail addresses.
>
> How on Earth did it do this?

I was going through my monthly password change routine. I accidentally changed the password in Thunderbird before changing it in Gmail. I quickly caught the error (I had only attempted to login once).

I flipped over to Gmail, changed the password, verified that it had changed, then flipped back over to Thunderbird and tried again. I can't remember the exact verbiage, but the error I got back wasn't "wrong password." It was along the lines of "POP access not enabled on this account" or something along those lines.

I thought maybe Thunderbird was being futzy or something. I uninstalled it and installed Outlook XP. Same error was returned.

Although I had not played with POP access settings, I logged back in through Gmail's web access, and verified that it was enabled. It was.

I tried to disable it, then re-enable it. "POP access not enabled on this account."

I tried just not using POP access for a month, but still got the same error a month later.

To this day I will not trust Thunderbird.
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