For the archives.
I followed Scott's steps to the letter. After I reinstalled Thunderbird, it
worked fine - for about an hour. Then the same problem: "Sending Message.
Status: Attaching...". Still never said *what* it was trying to attach.
My first thought was that I had a virus so I made sure my a-v was
up-to-date, and then ran a scan on the entire system. No virus was found.
So what could be the problem? An older version of TBird (3.0), which runs
on another computer, runs just fine, and I even checked to make sure that
all of the settings of the 7.0.1 version were the same. They were so I
decided to go home and go to bed.
Next morning I had an epiphany: What did I change in that one hour when
7.0.1 was working and when it went south? The only thing I could think of
was I added my signature file to the account settings. I have a signature
file that I have used in Outlook, Outlook Express, and Tbird. It contains a
.bmp file, which Tbird (all versions) simply cannot find, but the older
versions just ignored it and went along. Once I removed the .bmp file from
the signature file, TBird 7.0.1 ran fine. It did not matter if I had the
image in a file that was to be attached or coded in TBird's options. And,
yes, the .bmp actually existed in the location specified in the HTML.
Thanks for all of the help, guys.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
I am the punishment of God, if you had not committed great sins God would
not have sent a punishment like me upon you. -Genghis Khan
--
A&K Wholesale
Murfreesboro, TN
615-867-5070
-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 1:48 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] TBird Issues for Midrange
Hi Jerry,
On 10/10/2011 7:45 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:
Couldn't find it in the Task Manager's "Applications" tab
and have no idea what it might be in the "Processes" tab (certainly
nothing
intuitive). (Side note: I ran TBird on another computer and it shows up
in
the "Application" tab.)
I never rely on the "Applications" tab. (Indeed, I find that tab pretty
much useless.) Instead, use the "Processes" tab, click on the "Image
name" column to sort by the program name, and look for anything named
"thunderbird.exe"
Anyway, I re-booted the PX (XP Pro at SP3). Still telling me that TBird
is
already running. So I restored the profile from the MozBackup. TBird
loads
- but the @#$% "Sending Message..." progress box keeps says "Status:
Attaching" and won't go away.
I've never seen this problem, and I use Thunderbird constantly. Not
sure what else to try, except perhaps this:
1) Delete all profiles (via profile manager)
2) Uninstall Thunderbird
3) Delete C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird (if it exists)
4) Delete C:\Documents and Settings\-you-\Application Data\Thunderbird
for any users on the system.
5) Search the registry for anything containing thunderbird. Delete these.
6) Reboot
7) Reinstall Thunderbird.
midrange.com
