598088 - Can't access e-mail; get error report - nsIMsgMailNewsUrl.server nsresult: "0x8000ffff"

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[bnknowles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIMsgMailNewsUrl.server]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///D:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Thunderbird/modules/activity/alertHook.js :: anonymous :: line 80"  data: no]
Source File: file:///D:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Thunderbird/modules/activity/alertHook.js
Line: 80

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on "get Mail"
2.get no response
3.
Actual Results:  

get error message in error console

Expected Results:  
e-mail messages in inbox

E-mail works fine from charter site.
Downloaded and installed latest Thunderbird version (several times)
Worked fine under previous versions of Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you check the firewall settings and make sure they allow Thunderbird to connect to the internet ?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you check the firewall settings and make sure they allow Thunderbird to
> connect to the internet ?

bnknowles, results?  who is your mail account with?  If you are  using webmail extension http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension/browse_thread/thread/1d5cea59366404fc/0054c67d21664d01?pli=1 may be relevant. Otherwise, what are your authentication settings?

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1880845 reports something similar - no resolution there

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

bnknowles seems to be gone :(
=> incomplete