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When awakened from PC sleep Thunderbird shows 'could not connect'

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With Thunderbird running, I will often put my PC in sleep mode. When I wake it up some time later, Thunderbird shows 'could not connect'. A click on 'Get messages' then behaves normally. 

I presume that it has not given time for something to start up before sending an 'are you there' request. How can I avoid this irritant?

This does not happen if I go to sleep mode and then awaken in a few seconds.

Settings Get messages at startup. 

  and       Check every 10 minutes
With Thunderbird running, I will often put my PC in sleep mode. When I wake it up some time later, Thunderbird shows 'could not connect'. A click on 'Get messages' then behaves normally. I presume that it has not given time for something to start up before sending an 'are you there' request. How can I avoid this irritant? This does not happen if I go to sleep mode and then awaken in a few seconds. Settings Get messages at startup. and Check every 10 minutes

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Wayne Mery
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Partly related is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493043

I could not find a better bug report from https://mzl.la/3E1UCpp (but there could be one)