On 9/15/21 10:19 AM, Tim Evans wrote:
I have several of issues with the latest Thunderbird e-mail tool that came down via dnf lately; thunderbird-91.1.0-1.fc34.x86_64. (Prior version was 78.something.) Some are just annoying; one is major.
First, annoying. Starting a new message, the Send button is grayed out *IF* there is anything in the Bcc field. As I normally Bcc myself on all messages, this hits every time. Clearing the field, re-enables the Send button. Refilling the Bcc field does NOT cause the Send button to go gray.
Second, more annoying, when trying to reply to a message, the Send box is grayed out and cannot be restored, even by clearing the Bcc box. I have not found any way to actually send a reply (other than to go to my mobile phone and do it there).
Third, less annoying, access to my local on-disk mailspool (referred to in Thunderbird as "movemail") has disappeared. Not a big deal, as I can review local logfiles with a command-line mailtool like good ole 'mailx.'
Fourth, and a major problem, my Address Book has disappeared. The data appears to still be there, as I can start typing an address and have it auto-completed, but the address book itself appears empty, and can't be opened for browsing.
FLASH: after all this Send totally fails, even though button appears active, so this saved draft was called up and sent from phone.
Here's an update. Thanks for the several replies, with suggestions.
Long story short, I downloaded the latest Thunderbird, directly from
thunderbird.net, installed it in /usr/local, saved my old profile
directory, and tried out the new version.
Send problems disappeared, including when a Bcc is pre-filled in the
compose window. So, that part is resolved.
At this point, since I experienced exactly the same problems on *two*
different systems--with two different profiles--it's hard to believe
that both profiles were corrupted in such a way as to create the very
same problems on two systems. But there you have it. No one else on
this list has reported this problem with the Fedora-distro's version of
Thunderbird 91.
I was unable to recover my addressbook with the new version. Some of
you mentioned files named "abook.mab" or "abook.sqlite" in the profile
directory. I had no such files, either before or after the upgrade to
version 91 of Thunderbird, yet the addressbook was working. Can't
explain that.
I downgraded one of my systems to Thunderbird 78, and have put in a dnf
exclusion for upgrades of this application for the time being. That one
is working ok, and I was able to recover the addressbook there. Will
wait for the next Fedora-distro update to Thunderbird on the other
system to see if anything changes.
Again, thanks for all the help.
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