Thunderbird is not showing messages on a second Gmail account (each with their separate inboxes). The dock icon shows me I have new messages, and the account name is bold, but when I click on Inbox it's empty (new message indicator on dock is gone though). How can I fix this?

I am on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) with Thunderbird 2.0.0.23

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For the past year or so, both of my Macintosh computers will often crash when I shut them down or reboot. For my laptop, I have to remove the battery after turning it off in order to make sure that the battery isn't depleted. I just figured out that this crash occurs if I've run Thunderbird. If I don't run Thunderbird, my computers shut down normally.


Does anyone have this problem? Now that I'm on Snow Leopard, when I reboot after running Thunderbird I get Mac's grey screen of death.

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Well, I'm not sure if I'm having the same problem. I never replied to this thread, but somehow my post magically turned into a reply on this thread! (My Mac crashes when I reboot if I've run Thunderbird, but Thunderbird itself runs fine.)

I don't know how to get you a crash report in this kind of a scenario because my assumption is that the Quality Feedback Agent quits with Thunderbird; thus it's not running by the time I reboot.

ok, I'm using TB 3.0b4 and now Snow Leopard 10.6. TB crashes when I try to send an email with an attachment. I've sent the error message three times. It might be important that Apple's Mail did the same thing.
DSS

I have problems in TB on Snow Leopard in that it takes about a minute to load each message. I think I'm going to have to switch over to MAIL unless I can figure out a solution ASAP.

Just upgraded to Snow Leopard. Now, certain small text in Thunderbird email messages appears as gibberish. The same is also occurring in SeaMonkey. How can this be fixed? TIA!!

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I have been using TBird 2.0.0.23 with Sunbird 0.9 without problems under OS10.5. After upgrading to Snow Leopard OS 10.6, any attempt to write an email, open an attachment or switch to the Sunbird Calendar view results in Tbird crashing. I have had to switch back to using Mac Mail which is OK but lacks some of the functionality of Tbird. Anyone else experienced this issue? Richard

Just installed TB on a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard and moved TB folder from my old MacBook (running Leopard) to the new machine. TB does not work; the menu items don’t appear and when I try to prompt TB from the dock is says that TB is already running. However, TB does not appear in the running applications list. Very strange.

Thanks very much, Clark. I have installed TB twice, both times with the same result. But it is good to know you have been successful eventually, so I will give it another go this evening and will report the result. Thanks again.

A solution... but not a perfect one... After installing Snow Leopard, Thunderbird crashed every time I opened it. My wifi also stopped working. I am fortunate to have a good sys admin at my job. He fixed the wifi by simply removing a bad DNS setting.

Thunderbird was harder. Long story short, he concluded that Thunderbird was conflicting with some user settings. The work-around was to create a new user Account on my system (System Preferences/Accounts/Create new account), install Thunderbird there, then import my settings to the new User. My email is stored on the server (IMAP) so my email client is working again. The downside is that you can't bring everything over -- an exact replication of the Account settings from the old account will likely cause the same problems -- and it takes a while to set up my desktop how I like it, but at least my preferred email client is working again.

Since installing Snow Leopard last week, my Thunderbird is erratic. Two consistent problems--- 1) arriving emails no longer show other addressees and 2) when I forward an email, all the previously hidden geeky data lines become a part of the email (geeky stuff meaning Status, Keys, UIDL info, return-path, content type, MIME version, message ID, etc.)
When is the fix coming?

Update-- getting worse! Now, I cannot see attachments. If I try to detach them, they become corrupted or, inexplicably, the extension code changes. The geeky lines cannot be discarded or hidden and a scrolling bar does not appear, so sometimes I have to forward the letter to myself, and before I 'send' I can read the body of the text.

HELP. Will you guys get this fixed already?! SL has been out for months!

Thanks

I have taken a little while off from this discussion because I had no time to experiment with the possible solutions. Also because I still have a lot of much older email archived in Eudora and Apple Mail. Ideally, I would like to import my recent TB email AND older Eudora and Mail stuff to my new SL machine, but I have a hunch it is going to take some time. I will report once I get around doing this. Meanwhile, any suggestions are very welcome. Thanks to all of you for the suggestions so far.

Thanks for the update. I don't mean to be impatient or pushy, but I imagine there are tens of thousands of users of Snow Leopard-- all waiting for the fix. Is it you alone? Not a team?

I hope you fix it soon. It is very frustrating to have this great Thunderbird email program not working correctly!

Thanks,

bk

Agreed. It is especially irritating that TB still works fine with my old MS XP PC. I switched to MAC to avoid these issues!

I don’t know whether the last two entries were sent in response to my last posting, but just to be sure: I am a troubled TB user, not a Mozilla employee.

Generally, it seems operating systems and software seems to be getting more complicated and conflict-prone, eh? In the past, upgrading or taking a new machine was a matter of copying a couple of folders. No more, unfortunately. Too bad, Mac used to be so user-friendly...

Hello all of you. Before I leave this thread I would like to thank all of you for sharing your experience and knowledge. To summarize my problem: I did not manage to successfully import the files, etc. from my old machine into the new TB installed on SL. On itself, however, TB seemed to be running fine. I reverted to Apple Mail, which allowed for the seamless import of all my email archives since 1998. So sorry TB, nothing personal - I think Mozilla is a sympathetic organization. Good luck to you all! P.

ok

i just upgraded to a new macbook pro and snow leopard. behind the curve, i guess! at first (after using migration assistant to transfer everything over), tb 2 didn't even open correctly. so i downloaded tb 3, and that started up fine, and reindexed all my mail, but a plug-in i depend on wasn't compatible, so i tried 2 again, and then it did open at least.

but i'm still having problems with replying, attachments, and quitting. is there a 2.0.0.24 yet?

or, are there any plug-ins (compatible with tb 3) that let you schedule email to be sent later?

thanks!

What plug-in were you referring to? Did all your plug-ins not work? Other than that, did 3.0 work well? I have not taken the plunge because, you know what they say-- "You can turn a cucumber into a pickle, but you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber." I'm afraid if I switch to 3.0 and it re-indexes everything, I might get stuck and unable to go back to 2.0.

the plug-in is called "send later" and is my only one. it's not compatible with 3.0 (it's not that it was supposed to be and didn't work). fyi: http://www.unsignedbyte.com/?page_id=4

i didn't even try 3.0, for me, anyway, 2.0.0.23 seems to be able to handle the pickle, replying and quitting are working again. i can't drag an attachment to my desktop, but there's a control-click menu option that lets me save it there, and that's good enough.