I had this problem too and I found this report when googling I only started having the problem when I installed this plugin to thunderbird: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/google-contacts/
FWIW, this is with fedora17, not ubuntu, so it's definitely not a problem with ubuntu distribution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303098 Title: Startup always offline Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird Lately, Thunderbird always starts up OFFLINE and even when i close Thun being online, it starts up being online. Very annoying! I searched for clues in prefs.js but all "isOffline" sttings are on FALSE. FYI The last add on i installed was Google Contacts and before that it was Google IMAP account setup. Maybe it is in there. Regards, Martine To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/303098/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
