I have the same... but it hangs sometimes a whole day or a few days... so I start using evolution.... and after a while trying again it works magically.
I have a little bit the feeling it could be the lightning add-on giving problems. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 mozilla.org Linux myDellLatitudeD620Laptop 2.6.24-19-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Jun 4 18:50:11 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux -- Thunderbird periodically hangs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
