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New version does not download domain mail

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I think that it has been ever since Thunderbird last upgraded that I've been unable to download my domain email. The last email I have downloaded is dated 7-22 though I have mail on the server and nothing has changed there. Email access on my phone (through the Gmail app for all of my accounts) works fine. When I open Thunderbird, the Gmail accounts collect very quickly but my domain mail will say on the bottom status bar "[email address]: Checking mail server capabilities..." and the circle continues to spin up by the Inbox tab. Nothing is ever downloaded and this will stay like that as long as Thunderbird remains open. I've never really had a problem with Thunderbird before so I'm really pretty stupid as to what to do next. Thanks


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   Version: 38.1.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0
   Profile Folder: Show Folder
             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20150707103124
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
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I think that it has been ever since Thunderbird last upgraded that I've been unable to download my domain email. The last email I have downloaded is dated 7-22 though I have mail on the server and nothing has changed there. Email access on my phone (through the Gmail app for all of my accounts) works fine. When I open Thunderbird, the Gmail accounts collect very quickly but my domain mail will say on the bottom status bar "[email address]: Checking mail server capabilities..." and the circle continues to spin up by the Inbox tab. Nothing is ever downloaded and this will stay like that as long as Thunderbird remains open. I've never really had a problem with Thunderbird before so I'm really pretty stupid as to what to do next. Thanks Application Basics Name: Thunderbird Version: 38.1.0 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 Profile Folder: Show Folder (Local drive) Application Build ID: 20150707103124 Enabled Plugins: about:plugins Build Configuration: about:buildconfig Memory Use: about:memory Extensions Lightning, 4.0.1.2, true, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} CompactHeader, 2.1.0, false, {58D4392A-842E-11DE-B51A-C7B855D89593} Extra Folder Columns, 1.1.5, false, extra-cols@jminta_gmail.com Important Modified Preferences Name: Value accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0 browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400 browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400 browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false extensions.lastAppVersion: 38.1.0 font.internaluseonly.changed: true font.name.monospace.el: Consolas font.name.monospace.tr: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-baltic: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-central-euro: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-cyrillic: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-unicode: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-western: Consolas font.name.sans-serif.el: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.tr: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-baltic: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-central-euro: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-cyrillic: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-unicode: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-western: Calibri font.name.serif.el: Cambria font.name.serif.tr: Cambria font.name.serif.x-baltic: Cambria font.name.serif.x-central-euro: Cambria font.name.serif.x-cyrillic: Cambria font.name.serif.x-unicode: Cambria font.name.serif.x-western: Cambria font.size.fixed.el: 14 font.size.fixed.tr: 14 font.size.fixed.x-baltic: 14 font.size.fixed.x-central-euro: 14 font.size.fixed.x-cyrillic: 14 font.size.fixed.x-unicode: 14 font.size.fixed.x-western: 14 font.size.variable.el: 17 font.size.variable.tr: 17 font.size.variable.x-baltic: 17 font.size.variable.x-central-euro: 17 font.size.variable.x-cyrillic: 17 font.size.variable.x-unicode: 17 font.size.variable.x-western: 17 gfx.direct3d.last_used_feature_level_idx: 0 mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1 mail.winsearch.firstRunDone: true mailnews.database.global.datastore.id: 486865a1-785d-482a-a48e-ff6336a1951 network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true network.predictor.cleaned-up: true places.database.lastMaintenance: 1437958707 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858 plugin.importedState: true

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oh I forgot to mention that I am able to send mail from these accounts but I always get an error that it can't be saved to the sent box do I want to try again or cancel.

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You supplied some information copied from 'Troubleshooting Information'. For some unknown reason all the vital information about Mail and News Accounts is completely missing.

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Oops, not sure what happened...


 Application Basics
   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 38.1.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0
   Profile Folder: Show Folder
             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20150707103124
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
   account5:
     INCOMING: account5, , (pop3) pop.gmail.com:995, SSL, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: smtp.gmail.com:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true
   account7:
     INCOMING: account7, , (pop3) pop.gmail.com:995, SSL, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: smtp.gmail.com:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true
   account8:
     INCOMING: account8, , (imap) mail.vholifield.com:143, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: mail.vholifield.com:25, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true
   account9:
     INCOMING: account9, , (rss) Feeds, plain, passwordCleartext
   account10:
     INCOMING: account10, , (imap) mail.valerie.xyz:143, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: mail.valerie.xyz:25, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true
 Crash Reports
   http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-fbaaa496-0f35-4721-879b-ee7c42141030 (10/30/2014)
   http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-3378b967-36d2-4d82-8d18-8cc022140915 (9/15/2014)
   http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-04be0c0f-cfa3-4ea9-8b32-828ae2140831 (8/31/2014)
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   Extra Folder Columns, 1.1.5, false, extra-cols@jminta_gmail.com
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