Hi, thanks too for your reply. I have a fresh installation to fix not
just this thunderbird issue but a few others including non-functional
Adept Manager. The below server settings were correct on the broken
install.
Now that I have a functional thunderbird install and have a chance to
run dpkg -L thunderbird again and compare with the output from Nick's
request the other day, there were about 60 missing files within
/usr/lib/thunderbird compared to what I have now, presumably a broken
.deb file or a fault in it's download when running apt-get. Though I
did delete the deb file in /var/cache/apt/archives in my attempt to
rectify this, so maybe the former, as I discovered the problem pretty
quickly and attempted to rectify immediately. Maybe waiting an hour or
day would have fixed things, I don't know.
Anyway, this box is going fine again. Aside from verifying some backups
before proceeding, there is only a couple of hours time involved from
beginning to end, including additional packages and updates. Again,
thanks to everyone for the replies.
Roger
goldedge wrote:
Hi Roger,
pop3.paradise.net.nz port 110
use secure connection "never"
smtp.paradise.net.nz port 25
use secure connection "no"
I assume the gui is working ok and that you can see your existing mail
folders?
If the settings above don't solve your problem I recommend that you
make a copy of your existing mail directory folders to another
location in your home directory and then remove thunderbird using
synaptic or APT,then reinstall and copy your old mail folder to the
new install
location ( remove or rename the installs newly created mail folder so
your old mail folder becomes the default).
Hope this helps.
Michael
