another thunderbird bug

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 12/18/2009 03:20 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> When I click on "View settings for this account" link on the thunderbird
> main page it brings up the "account settings" dialog box.  If I click on
> "servr settings", "junk settings", or any other option except "Copies
> and Folders" I get the appropriate dialog.  Once I click on "Copies and
> Folders" I remain stuck on that dialog no matter what other dialog I
> click on.  I have to cancel and select the account settings link again
> if I want to change other settings.

Works fine for me on F11.x86_64.  Questions:

Were you running Thunderbird when you updated it?

Did you restart it after the update completed?  (Firefox and Thunderbird
are notorious for getting lost in their Chrome stuff if its updated
while they are running.)

What does Help/About Thunderbird show for your version?

> Also in the frame on the left side where it shows my email accounts and
> local folders if I click on any of them I get the following error
> 
> Error: uncaught exception: unable to find folder to select!
> 
> The problem is the email account that is shown is, e.g.
> 
> pgaltieri at gmail.com <mailto:pgaltieri at gmail.com>
> 
> The account folder name is actually
> 
> pop.gmail.com <http://pop.gmail.com>
> 
> This is all worked just fine with the previous version of thunderbird.
> 
> Even when I click on Local Folders it doesn't show my local folders.

All this sounds like you are still running the "old" thunderbird with
the new stuff installed.  Kill it, and try running the new one again.

> Is there anyway to download the previous version of thunderbird?

Yes, but knowing your current version numbers would be helpful.

yum supports downgrading.  If you can find the previous RPM, you can
downgrade to it.

> Paolo

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