Thunderbird, Vista, and email. ...?
Jun 13, 2008 | 4:39 pm
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Thunderbird, Vista, and email. ...?
A couple of days ago I blew up my home machine (don't ask).
I use Thunderbird as my email program. When I leave in the morning for work, I quit Thunderbird and use webmail to check my personal mail throughout the day.
For the last two days I have had no mail when I check with the web client.
When I come home and start Thunderbird, the mail is already there(!). W.T.F?
When I quit Thunderbird, I checked the task manager and there are no mysterious mail-reading processes that I can find.
What the heck can be downloading my mail to Vista if I have no mail program running?
I use Thunderbird as my email program. When I leave in the morning for work, I quit Thunderbird and use webmail to check my personal mail throughout the day.
For the last two days I have had no mail when I check with the web client.
When I come home and start Thunderbird, the mail is already there(!). W.T.F?
When I quit Thunderbird, I checked the task manager and there are no mysterious mail-reading processes that I can find.
What the heck can be downloading my mail to Vista if I have no mail program running?
Jun 13, 2008 | 7:25 pm
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My guess is that you haven't really exited Thunderbird before departing for work, and it's automatically checking/downloading email on a regular schedule throughout the day. When you get home and start it, you're really only switching to the already active program.
Check the "Processes" tab in Windows Task Manager before leaving for work and see if Thunderbird is still running. I know you said that you did that, but I can't tell whether you did it after you got home or in the morning before you left for work.
Check the "Processes" tab in Windows Task Manager before leaving for work and see if Thunderbird is still running. I know you said that you did that, but I can't tell whether you did it after you got home or in the morning before you left for work.
Jun 13, 2008 | 7:42 pm
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I will do a more controlled test in the morning.
Jun 13, 2008 | 8:04 pm
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My first thought was that you could have it open on another computer, though I realized that this is probably a POP3 account so if the other computer was open you would never get the messages on your desktop. Sounds like there is still a mysterious process open on your computer.
May I ask what you had to change/fix after your computer "blew up" that could have possibly triggered this?
May I ask what you had to change/fix after your computer "blew up" that could have possibly triggered this?
Jun 13, 2008 | 8:26 pm
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Jun 14, 2008 | 10:22 am
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I use Thunderbird, and do exactly what you do. I have found that on occasion The Thunderbird UI will close down but the process is still running and I need to kill it via the task manager.
Jun 14, 2008 | 12:17 pm
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Sounds like a good reason to switch to IMAP.
Jun 14, 2008 | 12:21 pm
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Sounds like a good reason to switch to IMAP.
Jun 14, 2008 | 1:14 pm
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That is so fixable:
gmail.com
fastmail.fm
runbox.com
tuffmail.com
etc.
With your email service separate from your ISP, you're all set if you need to move or change your ISP. Better yet, get your own domain and a separate email account like gmail, and then you've got complete portability without ever changing your email address.
gmail.com
fastmail.fm
runbox.com
tuffmail.com
etc.
With your email service separate from your ISP, you're all set if you need to move or change your ISP. Better yet, get your own domain and a separate email account like gmail, and then you've got complete portability without ever changing your email address.
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Jun 14, 2008 | 1:16 pm
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Jun 14, 2008 | 1:45 pm
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I have my own domain (see sig). It is my "original" e-mail address ISP that doesn't offer IMAP. Yes, I could put it on permanent forward, but I would rather resolve the weird issue I seem to have rather than paper it over with another layer of code.
Jun 14, 2008 | 1:52 pm
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Jun 14, 2008 | 4:37 pm
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If switching away from POP3 isn't an acceptable solution, maybe you should look at switching to a different email client.
Jun 14, 2008 | 4:46 pm
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Keep your domain. Move your email to google apps (and keep yourname@yourdomain email address.) In fact, you could just let google apps manage everything for you including the domain name itself.
My small ISP moved all its email to google apps. Same email address, different servers. Choice of pop, imap (both secure) with secure connection for smtp and you can still use the web interface. Plus gmail has very good spam filters.
-David
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Jun 14, 2008 | 4:51 pm
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