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Roland Tanglao replied on November 25, 2009 01:05 to the question "Chronosync and Tbird" in Mozilla Messaging:

Hi wabenzi1951

Not sure what the goal here is. If you want to read emails on your 2 macs, i recommend using IMAP instead as IMAP was designed to handle reading email on multiple computers.

If you just want to backup your files from 1 Mac to another then you can backup your profie directory using Chronosync to the other Mac.

The profile can be found at:
* ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/<profile name="true">/
OR
* ~/Library/Application Support/Thunderbird/Profiles/<profile name="true">/
more info:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_fol...

As for how to set up Chronosync, I suggest asking in the Chronosync forum:
http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages...</profile></profile>

Roland Tanglao replied on November 25, 2009 00:57 to the question "Sent emails aren't showing up, they are all blank" in Mozilla Messaging:

Hi Hammerhead:

It sounds to me like you need to compact your folders. Try that if Sandy's suggestion doesn't help.

First do a backup:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
http://kb.mozillazine.org/MozBackup (if on Windows)

To compact all your folders including your sent folder:
from http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_...:

To compact all folders in an account manually, click the account on the left, and then click "File -> Compact Folders". Compacting an account may take from a few seconds to 10 minutes or more, depending on how much mail you have and how recently you last compacted the folders. If you have trouble doing this and the process stalls, try compacting one folder at a time by right-clicking on the folder and choosing "Compact This Folder". If you do not let Thunderbird compact automatically, you should do this regularly, at least once a week. If you do it daily, it will take only a fraction of the time.

If that doesn't work:
The community needs more information to help you.

Please reply with complete details as requested in our README: Thunderbird version (2.0.0.23?), Operating System (Windows XP?), ISP, mail service provider, POP or IMAP settings, outgoing SMTP mail server settings, what add-ons you have installed if any, exact error message, what you did, what you expected, what happened, etc

Roland Tanglao replied on November 25, 2009 00:49 to the question "copy to sent error with GoDaddy using IMAP" in Mozilla Messaging:

Porty and Sandy:

Thanks for helping Danielle out! Only by folks in the community helping others like Porty and Sandy did can we possibly answer all the questions.

Danielle
If Porty's suggestion of compacting folders and Sandy's suggestion of changing your retention properties doesn't work, then:

The community needs more information to help you.

Please reply with complete details as requested in our README: Thunderbird version (2.0.0.23?), Operating System (Windows XP?), ISP, mail service provider, POP or IMAP settings, outgoing SMTP mail server settings, what add-ons you have installed if any, exact error message, what you did, what you expected, what happened, etc

Roland Tanglao marked one of Sandy's replies in Mozilla Messaging as useful. Sandy replied to the question "copy to sent error with GoDaddy using IMAP".

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Roland Tanglao replied on November 25, 2009 00:37 to the question "Why Can I Not see any sent emails past a certain date when I know they have been sent and replied to? The Sent Folder sems to be having problems refreshing?" in Mozilla Messaging:

Sandy: thanks for helping Nick and Walter out! Only by folks in the community helping others like Sandy did can we possibly answer all the questions.

For what it's worth "Use Server defaults" works for me in XP and Windows 7 and Mac OS for Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 but perhaps Nick and Walter's server is different.

It could also be that you have to compact your sent folder:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_...

Nick:
The community needs more information to help you.

Please reply with complete details as requested in our README: Thunderbird version (2.0.0.23?), Operating System (Windows XP?), ISP, mail service provider, POP or IMAP settings, outgoing SMTP mail server settings, what add-ons you have installed if any, exact error message, what you did, what you expected, what happened, etc

Walter
You probably have a different problem:
If you are still having problems, please create a new support topic with the info requested in our README

Roland Tanglao replied on November 25, 2009 00:08 to the problem "Can't receive or send mail after upgrading to TB3 RC1" in Mozilla Messaging:

Hi Gyurrika:

Sorry but haven't been able to think of anything further other than to suggest trying the just released Thunderbird 3 RC1 (build 3 that was just released)

Which POP account is giving you troubles? Is it pop3.freemail.hu or zoho.com ?

Roland Tanglao replied on November 25, 2009 00:03 to the problem "Sudden simultaneous T-bird failure on multiple systems & platforms" in Mozilla Messaging:

Hi r6chick:

The community needs more information to help you.

Please reply with complete details as requested in our README: Thunderbird version (2.0.0.23?), ISP, mail service provider, POP or IMAP settings, outgoing SMTP mail server settings, what add-ons you have installed if any, exact error message, what you did, what you expected, what happened, etc

Roland Tanglao replied on November 25, 2009 00:01 to the question "T-Bird 3 Release Candidate??" in Mozilla Messaging:

Thunderbird 3 RC1 is out!
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_me...

Roland Tanglao replied on November 25, 2009 00:00 to the question "Will Thunderbird 3 release now? How about now?" in Mozilla Messaging:

Thunderbird 3 RC1 is out!
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_me...

Roland Tanglao replied on November 24, 2009 23:59 to the question "when does TB 3.0 come" in Mozilla Messaging:

Thunderbird 3 RC1 is out!
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_me...

No idea how many RCs! My guess is 1-3

Roland Tanglao posted an update in Mozilla Messaging on November 24, 2009 23:56:

Thunderbird 3.0 RC1 is out

From the official Thunderbird 3 RC1 announcement:

Please note: the Thunderbird 3.0 Release Candidate is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this release candidate.

The Thunderbird 3.0 Release Candidate is now available for download. This milestone is focused on providing a preview of the functionality provided by the new features and changes that will be included in Thunderbird 3.0.

Read the whole thing for links to download pages, notes for developers, etc.

Roland Tanglao marked one of tanstaafl's replies in Mozilla Messaging as useful. tanstaafl replied to the question "Why did you place the Reply, Reply all, Forward buttons in such a bad place in Thunderbird 3?".

Roland Tanglao marked one of tanstaafl's replies in Mozilla Messaging as useful. tanstaafl replied to the question "ISP blocking for sending emails".

A comment on the question "How can I import a restored back up copy of my contacts when I can't select .mab as an option through File/Import?" in Mozilla Messaging:

thanks tanstaafl ! – Roland Tanglao, on November 24, 2009 20:48

Roland Tanglao marked one of tanstaafl's replies in Mozilla Messaging as useful. tanstaafl replied to the question "How can I import a restored back up copy of my contacts when I can't select .mab as an option through File/Import?".

Roland Tanglao replied on November 24, 2009 19:49 to the problem "Can't send email using comcast WAS:BET U CAN'T FIGURE THIS ONE OUT!!" in Mozilla Messaging:

Hi Brenda:

What Pasa is suggesting (if email is blocked, send the blocked email through another provider like gmail) may work but it also may not work. It may not work because the other provider may block outgoing email that doesn't use an outgoing address from them e.g. mail provider "foo.com" may disallow email with from addesses of "comcast.com"

I believe gmail will allow you to set the from to "comcast.com" and send outgoing email using gmail's server, but you have to do some verification first and here are the verification docs:
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...

Roland Tanglao marked one of David Bienvenu's replies in Mozilla Messaging as useful. David Bienvenu replied to the problem "cannot open some types of attachments even after reinstalling Thunderbird, etc.".

Roland Tanglao replied on November 24, 2009 08:48 to the question "OS mail.app to OS TBird?" in Mozilla Messaging:

Jonathan:

the thread has moved to here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_me...

Roland Tanglao marked one of Daniel Bunn's replies in Mozilla Messaging as useful. Daniel Bunn replied to the problem "Can not start Thunderbird. Says already running, even after a re-boot.".