Cannot send & receive mails via TB after upgrading to 60.3.3

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Baby0506
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Cannot send & receive mails via TB after upgrading to 60.3.3

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Hi,
I am using thunderbird as mail and calendar-client a couple of years and it used to work fine. My Mail is a web.de-account, my calendar is a google-calendar.
Today TB upgrades from TB 52.9.1 to 60.3.3. After this upgrade I neither send nor receive mails while the calendar is still working fine.
When I de-install TB 60.3.3 and reinstall TB 52.9.1 + adding the Lightning-stuff, mail and calendar is working fine again. After upgrading again to TB 60.3.3 it stopps, syncing the mails. I already disabled my viruschecker (GDATA) for a test, but this did not help.
I am using Windows 10 build 1803 as operating system and GDATAs newest version 25.5.1.21 as antivirus-software.
Here is also theTB-report for my system:


Allgemeine Informationen

Name: Thunderbird
Version: 60.3.3
Build-ID: 20181204174145

Update-Kanal: release
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3
Betriebssystem: Windows_NT 10.0

Fenster mit mehreren Prozessen: 0/0 (deaktiviert)
Web-Inhaltsprozesse:
Stylo: content = true (aktiviert (Standard)), chrome = true (aktiviert (Standard))
Unternehmensrichtlinien:
Google-Schlüssel: Fehlt
Mozilla-Location-Service-Schlüssel: Fehlt
Abgesicherter Modus: false

E-Mail- und Newsgruppen-Konten
account1:
INCOMING: account1, , (imap) imap.web.de:993, SSL, passwordCleartext
OUTGOING: , smtp.web.de:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true

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

Absturzberichte der letzten 3 Tage

Alle Absturzberichte

Erweiterungen

Name
Version
Aktiviert
ID

Lightning
6.2.3.3
true
{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}

Provider für Google Kalender
4.4.2
true
{a62ef8ec-5fdc-40c2-873c-223b8a6925cc}

Sicherheitssoftware

Typ: Name

Antivirus:
Antispyware:
Firewall: Windows-Firewall

Grafik

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Re: Cannot send & receie mails via TB after upgrading to 60.

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Moving to Thunderbird Support as no confirmed bug has yet been identified here.
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Re: Cannot send & receie mails via TB after upgrading to 60.

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"Today TB upgrades from TB 52.9.1 to 60.3.3. After this upgrade I neither send nor receive mails while the calendar is still working fine."

Can you still read old mail?
Can you refresh your list of potential folders to subscribe?

http://smtpimap.email/web.de-smtp-imap- ... tings.html seems to describe the settings you need. Your posts stated your are using the following for your web.de IMAP account:

INCOMING: account1, , (imap) imap.web.de:993, SSL, passwordCleartext
OUTGOING: , smtp.web.de:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true"


I am surprised by "passwordClearText". I'm used to seeing either "Normal password" or "OAuth2" (gmail, yahoo etc.). I've never seen alwaysSTARTTLS. I'm used to seeing STARTTLS or SSL/TLS. Please explain.

I created a IMAP account in Thunderbird 60.3.3 for web.de using a bogus email address and password. I used manual config and then advanced config to bypass the login check. It successfully fetched settings for that email provider from the Mozilla ISP database. I'd expect the account number to be different . Why don't the rest of your settings match the other settings I used?

incoming: account16 (imap) imap.web.de:993 SSL/TLS Normal password
outgoing: smtp.web.de:587 STARTTLS Normal password true
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Re: Cannot send & receie mails via TB after upgrading to 60.

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My Local Folders account in the troubleshooting information has:
account2 (none) Local Folders None Normal password

Yours has:
account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext

What causes the connection security to be "plain"? It should be "none" as Local Folders doesn't know how to talk over the network to a mail server.
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Re: Cannot send & receie mails via TB after upgrading to 60.

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I installed a German version of Thunderbird 60.3.3 in a different directory to see if localization was causing the differences in terminology. I saw:

account2 (none) Local Folders Keine Passwort, normal
account16 (imap) imap.web.de:993 SSL/TLS Passwort, normal smtp.web.de:587 STARTTLS Passwort, normal true

"Keine" appears to mean None. "Passwort,normal" appears to mean Normal password. That seems to rule out it being a localization problem (i.e. not due to using a German version).
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Re: Cannot send & receie mails via TB after upgrading to 60.

Post by Baby0506 »

Hi tanstaafl,
thank you for the reply. As a result of you mail I looked closer to my tb installation and found, that I have now 2 TBs in parallel
1. Systemwide - the TB Version 52.9.1, 32 Bit. This is the one, which I installed intentionally. Updatesettings: Look for updates, but do not automatically install them
2. under my useraccount - TB 60.3.3, 32 Bit. Result of an automated update.

In both cases I did not intentionally do the settings with "passwordCleartext", this must be a result of some defaultsettings. I changed this accoding to your suggestion above.
I currently have the 2 TB versions 52.9.1 and 60.3.3 im parallel and can play mail-pingpong with some interesting results:
1.If I send an email to myself from TB 52.9.1 everything works fine: I can send it, a copy is stored in folder "sent" and the inbox updates and show me that message
2. If I now switch to TB 60.3.3 I see the new messahe in the inbox
I I sent a mail from TB 60, I get the message: WMail has been sent, but was not copied to the sent-folder, because there were problems accessing the network or files. Regardless if I select "Do not save" or "store locally" I do not receive the mail, I just sent in TB 60 within TB 60. To see this message, I have to close TB 60 and start TB 52. If I then stop TB 52 and start TB 60, I can see the new message also here.

Your second post from today seem to point to a problem with the local stage, which may cause the rest of the problems I have. As I did not intentionally do any settings here - I just used the defaultvalues from the installation - where are this values stored?
If I look at the settings for the local folders, both installations seem to be identically even if they behave differently:
If I go to "local folders"/"Lokale Ordner" I see in both TB-installations: "Account name"/"Konten-Bezeichnung" = "Lokale Ordner". Both installation use the same local folder.
Where can I find the values you metioned in your post?
Thank you
Bernd
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Re: Cannot send & receie mails via TB after upgrading to 60.

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Your account settings are stored in the prefs.js file in the profile. You could edit that with a text editor or the config editor at tools -> options -> advanced -> general (think of it as about:config, but run from a menu)

When version 60 was initially released it was not available as a update to 52.9.1. You had to download the setup program for it. Once you installed it you could update it normally.

I suggest you use help -> troubleshooting information -> open folder in each version of Thundebrird, and see if they both open file explorer (windows explorer) at the same directory. I'd normally expect them to use the same profile.

The main issue with 52.9.1. and 60.3.3 sharing a profile is that if you modified extensions.strictCompatibility to false (to allow you to install add-ons that don't formally support version 60) it gets reset whenever you switch versions because the default value is different in the two versions. You can prevent that problem by setting it in the optional user.js file, which overrides whatever is set in prefs.js. If you never modified that setting, you don't have to do anything.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file (user.js file)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird (where is a profile)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Files_and_fol ... hunderbird (whats in a profile)
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Re: Cannot send & receie mails via TB after upgrading to 60.

Post by Baby0506 »

Hi Tanstaafl,
finally I got it.
1. I did an uninstall/reinstall of both TB-installations and got the same result (TB 52 working, TB 60 not/ in the way I descibed above).
2. I deinstalled both versions again and manually deleted the directory under %profile%\appdata\roaming\Thunderbird
3. I installed TB 60 again. This time, I got a warning by myvirusscanner, guessing some suspect code in the tb-istallation, which I did not get before - caused by the deletion of the Thunderbird-dir.
4. I then got a message from TB 60, that he would not trust the certificate of web.de, which ist caused by the GDATA-AVK
5. I then (see GDATA-Supportpage) had to export the GDATA-certificate and import this into the TB-certificates
Everything is working now and we learned, that the installation has been influenced by my virus-scanner, something which you could not reproduce.
Thank you for the support. Maybe the guys, programming TB can take care to be more virus-scanner-compatile in the furture.
Best regards Bernd
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