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Philip Bernstein

2006-11-05, 1:12 pm

Hi,

I have been having some issues with thunderbird. I have the setup as
follows: when I start the program, it opens with the left side showing
my accounts, the top pane on the right shows my mail, and the bottom
right shows the preview pane.
Now up until a short while ago, after opening up the program and
clicking on the first unread message, the preview pane would show me the
message content. Now when I open the program and click on a message,
nothing happens. Nothing in the preview pane. I have to click on
another item in the left hand menu (where my accounts are) like the
drafts folder then go back to the inbox folder and then I can see the
preview pane contents. From then on everything works. It's only that
first time that I open the program that this happens. I should say that
it does happen again if I close the program and reopen it.
Anyone else have this happen or know whats causing it?

Thanks
Phil

kurt

2006-11-05, 7:13 pm

Philip Bernstein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been having some issues with thunderbird. I have the setup as
> follows: when I start the program, it opens with the left side showing
> my accounts, the top pane on the right shows my mail, and the bottom
> right shows the preview pane.
> Now up until a short while ago, after opening up the program and
> clicking on the first unread message, the preview pane would show me the
> message content. Now when I open the program and click on a message,
> nothing happens. Nothing in the preview pane. I have to click on
> another item in the left hand menu (where my accounts are) like the
> drafts folder then go back to the inbox folder and then I can see the
> preview pane contents. From then on everything works. It's only that
> first time that I open the program that this happens. I should say that
> it does happen again if I close the program and reopen it.
> Anyone else have this happen or know whats causing it?
>
> Thanks
> Phil

I had a similar problem with Thunderbird on my previous installation of
FC4 - I don't remember the original installed version of Tbird, but none
of the subsequent releases/patches corrected it. I have since installed
FC5 and the problem has vanished. My symptoms were not identical, but
similar. I would open Thunderbird, click on an email message, newsgroup
item, whetever, and nothing was displayed in the reader pane. I would
have to close the application and re-start it, then everything would
work for the rest of that session. This was intermittent. Many times
everything was fine right from the start. When it failed, I looked for
remnants that didn't terminate properly from the last run, but could not
find any.

Philip Bernstein

2006-11-05, 7:13 pm

Hmmmm I am running Kubuntu 6.10 (edgy) now but the problem was happening
before that. So unfortunately changing distro or versions hasn't helped
me. I even moved my .thunderbird directory and redid eveything and
still had the problem.
Thanks for the reply though.

kurt wrote:
> Philip Bernstein wrote:
>
> I had a similar problem with Thunderbird on my previous installation of
> FC4 - I don't remember the original installed version of Tbird, but none
> of the subsequent releases/patches corrected it. I have since installed
> FC5 and the problem has vanished. My symptoms were not identical, but
> similar. I would open Thunderbird, click on an email message, newsgroup
> item, whetever, and nothing was displayed in the reader pane. I would
> have to close the application and re-start it, then everything would
> work for the rest of that session. This was intermittent. Many times
> everything was fine right from the start. When it failed, I looked for
> remnants that didn't terminate properly from the last run, but could not
> find any.

--
Philip Bernstein
ppberns@hvc.rr.com

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2006-11-06, 1:12 pm