On 09/28/2012 09:13 PM, Scott Garman wrote: > On 09/28/2012 05:24 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> At the bottom of the T-bird window, near the right hand corner, there is >> a progress bar that, as far as I know, shows me that T-bird is still >> trying to download some part of an e-mail. This usually relates to >> something with an attachment. >> >> Is there some way to figure out what specific e-mail is still waiting to >> finish downloading something? I've been watching that little lack of >> progress indicator for half the afternoon. I've read and deleted most of >> the e-mail that came in this afternoon, and don't find anything suspicious. > I'm a heavy Thunderbird user and I get this all the time. In particular > I seem to get the eternal progress bar after going into offline mode > after it has downloaded my email. That happens about 50% of the time I > go into offline mode, and if I leave it this way, Tbird will eat up some > CPU continuously. If I close and then restart it, things stay quiet as > expected. > > I have the feeling it's just some buggy interaction between Thunderbird > and the mail server. > > It sure would be nice to get some info on what Thunderbird thinks it's > doing, though - would make it helpful to develop a meaningful bug report > for it. > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Thunderbird hasn't glitched like this for me in a long time, or after "on the fly" upgrades. But then, I use Xfce and Slackware ;-)
One trick is to start Thunderbird via the CLI (xterm or whichever). That way you might get some error console output. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
