Thunderbird keeps dying on me
All of a sudden Thunderbird (which I’ve used for years and am generally very happy with) keeps crapping out on me at weird times, often when I’m not even using it. I’ll be happily working away in some other program, or even away from the computer, and find that Thunderbird has died for no obvious reason. This is happening on a number of different machines (all Macs) running the latest Thunderbird (1.5.0.5). In fact I think the problem may have started when I moved up to 1.5.0.5.
Hmph.
A few hours later: OK, I think I’ve solved the problem. A little forum searching got me thinking that the problem was that my (very large) mailboxes hadn’t been compacted in about forever. So I turned on the “Clean up (’Expunge’) Inbox on exit” option in the account settings. Since doing that Thunderbird has worked beautifully again, both at the office and at home. Amazing what a simple little checkbox can do…
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August 23rd, 2006 at 21:52
….. at least you arent suffering the constant annoyance of Outlook/Exchange. This is unfortunate news, as I always found Thunderbird to be a nice, usable package.
August 23rd, 2006 at 21:59
Oh, yeah, I’m way glad that I’m not in that universe. And happily I think I’ve solved the problem, so I can go back to being a happy Thunderbird user again!