Thunderbird problems

Frank McCormick

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Jun 14, 2021, 6:30:04 PM6/14/21

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The latest version of Thunderbird which was updated recently is giving
me problems connecting to gmail.

How can I downgrade Thunderbird on this machine? I am running
Bullseye

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Frank McCormick

Robbi Nespu

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Jun 14, 2021, 9:50:04 PM6/14/21

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On 6/15/21 6:24 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> The latest version of Thunderbird which was updated recently is giving
> me problems connecting to gmail.
>
> How can I downgrade Thunderbird on this machine? I am running
> Bullseye
>
>

Let me guess, you unable to connect imap and smtp right? I having that
kind of issue.

$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
Installed: 1:78.11.0-1
Candidate: 1:78.11.0-1
Version table:
*** 1:78.11.0-1 500
500 http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

with setting up few thing below, I can see it said unable to connect to
imap..

$ export MOZ_LOG=IMAP:5,timestamp
$ export MOZ_LOG_FILE=/tmp/imap_thunderbird.log
$ thunderbird
$ tail -f /tmp/imap_thunderbird.log # on separate terminal

I give up to check further so, I clear up the account (keep data) and
re-add the account and sync from start again. Now I can use...to connect
and see my email, but failure when sending out email. it have smtp issue
too (change MOZ_LOG=SMTP:5,timestamp).. the remove the account and
resync for second time, look resolve my issues

what waste of bandwidth for today

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Frank McCormick

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Jun 14, 2021, 11:40:04 PM6/14/21

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I downloaded he generic 64 bit version of Thunderbird from the
Mozilla website and set it up in my home directory. Works fines,
connects everywhere so obviously the problem is with the Debian build of
Thunderbird.
I filed a bug report with Mozilla. Perhaps I should do the same with Debian?

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Frank McCormick

Marko Randjelovic

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Jun 15, 2021, 5:40:04 AM6/15/21

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On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:22:41 -0400
Frank McCormick <debia...@videotron.ca> wrote:

> I filed a bug report with Mozilla. Perhaps I should do the same with Debian?

Of course, Mozilla cannot solve Debian bugs and it looks like the bug
is from Debian. It is possible the bug is from Thunderburd (not
Mozilla as Thunderbird is not part of Mozilla anymore), but still if you
don't know it the correct way is to report the bug to Debian and if they
determine the bug is upstream they will forward it.

Alexander V. Makartsev

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Jun 15, 2021, 8:10:05 AM6/15/21

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On 15.06.2021 06:46, Robbi Nespu wrote:

On 6/15/21 6:24 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:

The latest version of Thunderbird which was updated recently is giving me problems connecting to gmail.

How can I downgrade Thunderbird on this machine? I am running
Bullseye

Let me guess, you unable to connect imap and smtp right? I having that kind of issue.

$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
Installed: 1:78.11.0-1
Candidate: 1:78.11.0-1
Version table:
*** 1:78.11.0-1 500
500 http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Just FYI, I have the same version of Thunderbird installed, except it is from Buster.
...
thunderbird:
Installed: 1:78.11.0-1~deb10u1
Candidate: 1:78.11.0-1~deb10u1
Version table:
*** 1:78.11.0-1~deb10u1 500
500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
...

I didn't had any issues with Thunderbird before and after update. It works normally as usual.
I think, the root cause for this issue could be elsewhere. I would suspect "libc" version difference in Bullseye, or something else.

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Boyan Penkov

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Jun 15, 2021, 8:30:05 AM6/15/21

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On 6/15/21 8:05 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 15.06.2021 06:46, Robbi Nespu wrote:
>> On 6/15/21 6:24 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> ...
>
> I didn't had any issues with Thunderbird before and after update. It
> works normally as usual.
> I think, the root cause for this issue could be elsewhere. I would
> suspect "libc" version difference in Bullseye, or something else.

Actually, +1 on this observation, for 1.78.11.0-1 not working on two
Bullseye installs.

Strangely, my personal gmail won't log in, but my university's mail --
managed by google -- does...

Cheers!