263657 - TB Hangs upon connection to POP3 server, won't download or stop

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Noah A. Bolmer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Upon opening TB and downloading, I see the following:
Connecting to Cox.net at the bottom of the screen
The activity widgit keeps rolling, but when I move the mouse, the "connecting
to..." disappears. The stop button is not ghosted, but pressing it does nothing.
Restarting the program lets me try again, but same result each time. This is
similar, but not the same frequently submitted bug where it hangs while
downloading the first (spam) message. Deleting all messages from the server does
not solve the problem. I had this problem before in Mozilla, and changed to TB
because of it. Problem solved, until now. Upgrading to 10.x did not help. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start TB
2. Click "check mail"

Actual Results:  
Connecting to Cox.net at the bottom of the screen. The activity widgit keeps
rolling, but when I move the mouse, the "connecting to..." disappears. 

Expected Results:  
Downloaded messages.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

what version of thunderbird are you using? If it's the original .8 build, could
you try a more recent .8 build, since there was a server bug with some servers
that we've worked around in more recent .8 aviary branch builds

Comment 2

[Noah A. Bolmer]

(In reply to comment #1)
> what version of thunderbird are you using? If it's the original .8 build, could
> you try a more recent .8 build, since there was a server bug with some servers
> that we've worked around in more recent .8 aviary branch builds

I downloaded the latest nightly build. No change. 

Comment 3

[mark]

This has also happened recently to me. 
I'd downloaded TB release on 1/20/04 and connected with pop3 frontiernet on a
win98se machine. Same problem as previous writer resulted. 

Possibly of interest:
I've a running TB, version 1.0 (20041206) which is currently working with same
pop3 server. 

Comment 4

[mark]

Beg pardon- on my last, date should be 1/20/05 :P

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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