Thunderbird 31.0

Merci @ Rules

 

Still having an address book bug where if I manually add a new contact:
Joe.Someone@domain.com ; Thunderbird adding quotes or hyphens to the new contact, resulting in:
"Joe.Someone"@domain.com This does not only apply to newly created contacts with a (dot) in the person's name.

 

I've asked Mozilla on Twitter about the addressing bug as I'm certainly not the only one with this issue. Will post back when I've got a workaround or a fix.

 

Thunderbird 31.2.0 in your language:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

 

Although ESET doesn't officially support Thunderbird - it plays well with ESET AV.
http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2138

For those with high traffic email accounts, it's good practice to *manually* compact these accounts.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders

 

Thunderbird 31.2.0 seems a bit sluggish polling an email account.

Anyone else finding this build slow to perform it's expected tasks ?

 

It has the same behavior as always for me: not fast not slow.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

 

I just updated my Mozilla apps. Testing them on an old/slow desktop first. I watched behavior, including network traffic, as Thunderbird checked multiple test accounts (some with my ISP and some on the other side of my ISP). The process was reasonably snappy.

Have you watched network traffic and/or used timestamped logging to zero in on what is slow?

 

I think the external email that I poll is slow but there's no measuring tool. One local ISP account works fine.

I use T-Bird to poll GRC NEWS but only one.

Since Mozilla pushes these out like Daisies, I'm not worried. T-Bird is still an excellent supported email client.

 

Then you may have your answer already. However, some info about logging:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_logging_for_mail/news

and an example batch file that will launch Thunderbird with logging enabled:

Code:

@echo off
wmic process where (name="thunderbird.exe") get name, processid 2>nul | findstr /i "thunderbird.exe" 1>nul
if not errorlevel 1 goto :error
set NSPR_LOG_FILE=%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ThunderbirdLog.txt
REM set NSPR_LOG_MODULES=timestamp,nsHostResolver:5,nsSocketTransport:5,negotiateauth:5,imap:5,pop3:5,smtp:5,nntp:5,nsHttp:5
set NSPR_LOG_MODULES=timestamp,imap:5,pop3:5,smtp:5,nntp:5
set GECKO_SEPARATE_NSPR_LOGS=1
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\Thunderbird.exe"
set GECKO_SEPARATE_NSPR_LOGS=
set NSPR_LOG_MODULES=
set NSPR_LOG_FILE=
goto :done
:error
echo.
echo Please close all instances of Thunderbird before running this batch file
:done

 

This can be used as a hardening guide for Thunderbird:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy/changes

 

@ TheWindBringeth

Thanks for the logging references, those are handy. Appreciated.

 

Version 31.3.0 in your language.
Advanced users may choose a custom setup to avoid desktop shortcuts being installed where they may not be wanted.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

 

Thunderbird 31.4.0 is released.
Release Notes -
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/31.4.0/releasenotes/

Download in your language -
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

 

So far - so good. I've defeated the address book issue the old fashioned way.
Whiling away the hours fidgeting fixed it. It's a Moz bug that's easily corrected.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29760381-Thunderbird-Addressing-Adress-book-issue

 

31.5.0 officially coming soon

just updated without issue :

-http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.5.0/win32/-

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/31.5.0/releasenotes/




Rules.

 

Download in your Lingo -
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

What's fixed in this release - h/t @ DSL Reports User:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird31.5.0