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unable to send message via thunderbird

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Dear experts.

For some reason, my thunderbird that I have been using for the past 1 year suddenly stopped receiving messages.

At the bottom left of the thunderbird, I can see that it says "Downloading message 1 of 37..." Within a few seconds, it says, "No Messages to download"

I have browse through the forums and did the followings;

1. Successfully login to my web email server and managed to receive and send emails without problem 2. Tried turning off firewall, uninstall antivirus and even change to a new antivirus but it still cannot receive email. 3. Tried restarting thunderbird in safemode 4. Tried to boot in safemode with network but realise that no internet connection is available, which means cannot receive email too.

This is my troubleshooting information; 


 Application Basics

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 52.8.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0
   Profile Folder: Open Folder

             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20180516145259
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
   Profiles: about:profiles

 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (pop3) pop.singnet.com.sg:110, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: , mail.singnet.com.sg:25, plain, passwordCleartext, true

   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext

 Crash Reports

 Extensions
   Lightning, 5.4.8, false, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}

 Important Modified Preferences

   Name: Value

     accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
     browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
     browser.cache.disk.filesystem_reported: 1
     extensions.lastAppVersion: 52.8.0
     font.internaluseonly.changed: false
     font.name.monospace.el: 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.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.x-cyrillic: Cambria
     font.name.serif.x-unicode: Cambria
     font.name.serif.x-western: Cambria
     font.size.fixed.el: 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.x-cyrillic: 17
     font.size.variable.x-unicode: 17
     font.size.variable.x-western: 17
     mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1
     mail.winsearch.firstRunDone: true
     mailnews.database.global.datastore.id: 523464ff-a622-4f5b-812f-3314689d63f
     mailnews.database.global.views.conversation.columns: {"threadCol":{"visible":true,"ordinal":"1"},"flaggedCol":{"visible":true,"ordinal":"3"},"attachmentCol":{"visible":false…
     media.gmp.storage.version.observed: 1
     network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true
     network.predictor.cleaned-up: true
     places.database.lastMaintenance: 1529641873
     places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 122334
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_bgcolor: false
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_bgimages: false
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_duplex: -437918235
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_edge_bottom: 0
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_edge_left: 0
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_edge_right: 0
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_edge_top: 0
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_evenpages: true
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_footercenter:
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_footerleft: &PT
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_footerright: &D
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_headercenter:
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_headerleft: &T
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_headerright: &U
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_in_color: true
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_margin_bottom: 0.5
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_margin_left: 0.5
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_margin_right: 0.5
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_margin_top: 0.5
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_oddpages: true
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_orientation: 0
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_page_delay: 50
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_data: -1
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_height: 297.00
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_name:
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_size_unit: 1
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_width: 210.00
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_resolution: 600
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_reversed: false
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_scaling: 1.00
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_shrink_to_fit: true
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_to_file: false
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom: 0
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_left: 0
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_right: 0
     print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_top: 0
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_bgcolor: false
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_bgimages: false
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_duplex: -437918235
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_edge_bottom: 0
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_edge_left: 0
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_edge_right: 0
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_edge_top: 0
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_evenpages: true
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_footercenter:
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_footerleft: &PT
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_footerright: &D
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_headercenter:
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_headerleft: &T
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_headerright: &U
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_in_color: true
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_margin_bottom: 0.5
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_margin_left: 0.5
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_margin_right: 0.5
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_margin_top: 0.5
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_oddpages: true
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_orientation: 0
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_page_delay: 50
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_data: 9
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_height: -1.00
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_name:
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_size_unit: 1
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_width: -1.00
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_resolution: 600
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_reversed: false
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_scaling: 1.00
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_shrink_to_fit: true
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_to_file: false
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom: 0
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_left: 0
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_right: 0
     print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_top: 0
     security.sandbox.content.tempDirSuffix: {fc5c607b-6b2f-4ba5-94aa-a8167e8e6627}

 Graphics

     GPU #1
     Description: Intel(R) HD Graphics 620
     Vendor ID: 0x8086
     Device ID: 0x5916
     RAM: Unknown
     Drivers: igdumdim64 igd10iumd64 igd10iumd64 igd12umd64 igdumdim32 igd10iumd32 igd10iumd32 igd12umd32
     Driver Version: 21.20.16.4550
     Driver Date: 11-11-2016

     GPU #2
     Description: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
     Vendor ID: 0x10de
     Device ID: 0x134d
     RAM: 2048
     Drivers: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumdx.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumdx.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumdx.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumdx.dll C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumd.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumd.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumd.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumd.dll
     Driver Version: 22.21.13.8476
     Driver Date: 6-27-2017
Dear experts. For some reason, my thunderbird that I have been using for the past 1 year suddenly stopped receiving messages. At the bottom left of the thunderbird, I can see that it says "Downloading message 1 of 37..." Within a few seconds, it says, "No Messages to download" I have browse through the forums and did the followings; 1. Successfully login to my web email server and managed to receive and send emails without problem 2. Tried turning off firewall, uninstall antivirus and even change to a new antivirus but it still cannot receive email. 3. Tried restarting thunderbird in safemode 4. Tried to boot in safemode with network but realise that no internet connection is available, which means cannot receive email too. This is my troubleshooting information; Application Basics Name: Thunderbird Version: 52.8.0 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 Profile Folder: Open Folder (Local drive) Application Build ID: 20180516145259 Enabled Plugins: about:plugins Build Configuration: about:buildconfig Memory Use: about:memory Profiles: about:profiles Mail and News Accounts account1: INCOMING: account1, , (pop3) pop.singnet.com.sg:110, plain, passwordCleartext OUTGOING: , mail.singnet.com.sg:25, plain, passwordCleartext, true account2: INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext Crash Reports Extensions Lightning, 5.4.8, false, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} Important Modified Preferences Name: Value accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0 browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400 browser.cache.disk.filesystem_reported: 1 extensions.lastAppVersion: 52.8.0 font.internaluseonly.changed: false font.name.monospace.el: 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.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.x-cyrillic: Cambria font.name.serif.x-unicode: Cambria font.name.serif.x-western: Cambria font.size.fixed.el: 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.x-cyrillic: 17 font.size.variable.x-unicode: 17 font.size.variable.x-western: 17 mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1 mail.winsearch.firstRunDone: true mailnews.database.global.datastore.id: 523464ff-a622-4f5b-812f-3314689d63f mailnews.database.global.views.conversation.columns: {"threadCol":{"visible":true,"ordinal":"1"},"flaggedCol":{"visible":true,"ordinal":"3"},"attachmentCol":{"visible":false… media.gmp.storage.version.observed: 1 network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true network.predictor.cleaned-up: true places.database.lastMaintenance: 1529641873 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 122334 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_bgcolor: false print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_bgimages: false print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_duplex: -437918235 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_edge_bottom: 0 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_edge_left: 0 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_edge_right: 0 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_edge_top: 0 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_evenpages: true print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_footercenter: print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_footerleft: &PT print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_footerright: &D print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_headercenter: print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_headerleft: &T print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_headerright: &U print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_in_color: true print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_margin_bottom: 0.5 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_margin_left: 0.5 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_margin_right: 0.5 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_margin_top: 0.5 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_oddpages: true print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_orientation: 0 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_page_delay: 50 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_data: -1 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_height: 297.00 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_name: print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_size_unit: 1 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_paper_width: 210.00 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_resolution: 600 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_reversed: false print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_scaling: 1.00 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_shrink_to_fit: true print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_to_file: false print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom: 0 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_left: 0 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_right: 0 print.printer_Brother_DCP-J562DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_top: 0 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_bgcolor: false print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_bgimages: false print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_duplex: -437918235 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_edge_bottom: 0 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_edge_left: 0 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_edge_right: 0 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_edge_top: 0 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_evenpages: true print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_footercenter: print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_footerleft: &PT print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_footerright: &D print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_headercenter: print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_headerleft: &T print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_headerright: &U print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_in_color: true print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_margin_bottom: 0.5 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_margin_left: 0.5 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_margin_right: 0.5 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_margin_top: 0.5 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_oddpages: true print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_orientation: 0 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_page_delay: 50 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_data: 9 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_height: -1.00 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_name: print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_size_unit: 1 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_paper_width: -1.00 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_resolution: 600 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_reversed: false print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_scaling: 1.00 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_shrink_to_fit: true print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_to_file: false print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom: 0 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_left: 0 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_right: 0 print.printer_Brother_MFC-J470DW_Printer.print_unwriteable_margin_top: 0 security.sandbox.content.tempDirSuffix: {fc5c607b-6b2f-4ba5-94aa-a8167e8e6627} Graphics GPU #1 Description: Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 Vendor ID: 0x8086 Device ID: 0x5916 RAM: Unknown Drivers: igdumdim64 igd10iumd64 igd10iumd64 igd12umd64 igdumdim32 igd10iumd32 igd10iumd32 igd12umd32 Driver Version: 21.20.16.4550 Driver Date: 11-11-2016 GPU #2 Description: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX Vendor ID: 0x10de Device ID: 0x134d RAM: 2048 Drivers: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumdx.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumdx.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumdx.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumdx.dll C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumd.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumd.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumd.dll,C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_15b1a77b889ed915\nvldumd.dll Driver Version: 22.21.13.8476 Driver Date: 6-27-2017

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NeedHelpPlsss
NeedHelpPlsss Umnini wombuzo
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Ok. For some reason, after not receiving any message for a few days, my thunderbird suddenly received 30+ messages.

Ermm.. So I would like to know to ensure it can work flawlessly like before?

I did not tweak any security settings (firewall/antivirus) today and am just doing my normal stuffs when I receive all the messages.

Thanks.

user01229325
user01229325
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I would contact your provider for the most current server settings. Most reliable providers stopped using port 25 for security reasons long ago.

As for reliability, that is a question for your provider. Thunderbird is software running on your computer. You changed nothing there and it stopped and started working.