On 1/17/2006 7:53 PM tmhankin wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> I am an earthlink subscriber and I use thunderbird to read my email. As
> of two days ago, without intentionally changing any settings on my part,
> Tbird began telling me that there were no new messages on the server. I
> have since gone to earthlink and found my webmail inbox with many
> messages ... I have looked over the account settings and can find
> nothing obvious. I telephoned earthlink support to find out if there
> was a problem at their end ... they denied same. I use the Windows XP
> platform and I have had no difficulties with Tbird or Firefox until this
> issue. Any help or suggestions as to how to fix this is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ted

It's not any help, but a friend who uses Earthlink's email program
(EarthLink MailBox 2005.2.15.0 (Windows)), has had similar problems in
the recent past. I'm not sure what or how, but it seems like it is an
Earthlink problem, even though they deny it.

I have seen similar problems with Thunderbird occasionally, but if I
close the program, kill the Thunderbird process that doesn't die on its
own, then restart the program, everything works again.