ports/72707: New Thunderbird unusable with IMAP mailboxes

[Florian Le Goff]

Hi,

[synopsis for archiving purpose : a new thunderbird installation goes in 
an infinite "Opening folder" loop on an IMAP mailbox folder]

Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
>> I ran into this in one of my installations, and I had to remove the
>> ~/.thunderbird directory to get it working again.  Another 
>> installation did
>> not have this problem.  So far, that's the only fix I've been able to 
>> come
>> up with.  If you find a better one, please let me know.
>>  
>>
> Deleting ~/.thunderbird/<profile>/compreg.dat was enough for me.
> 
> According to mozilla.org, this is the "Mozilla XPCOM registry. Files 
> where Mozilla keeps track of its components."
> Probably something goes wrong when this belongs to an older version.
> And maybe, this would solve the problems with an upgrade of firefox.
> 

Well, I'll try your tip Sebastian, it seems more "friendly" (I hope that 
my filters won't be affected).

Thanks a lot for your replies, Marcus and Sebastian.

-- 
Florian - madflo at beertech.org