Ubuntu,Thunderbird and Gmail

[Norm24]

I buy you books and what do you do, Beat the Teacher...
You Missed a bit here:

less /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla

Don't Omit "less"

I didn't miss "less" it was copied and pasted as posted and this is the output:

/etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla: No such file or directory

[Norm24]

This is just one I can't figure out.Gmail no longer seems to be functional with any email clients on both my Mate 22.04.4 and 24.04.1 machines.I absolutely hate the idea of using webmail to access my Gmail account but that seems to be the only solution at this point.

[ajgreeny]

Absolutely no problem using TB for gmail on my Xubuntu 22.04 or 24.04, and my 24.04 is also using kernel 6.8.0-44 so that can't be the total reason either.

[Norm24]

Absolutely no problem using TB for gmail on my Xubuntu 22.04 or 24.04, and my 24.04 is also using kernel 6.8.0-44 so that can't be the total reason either.

This one is totally driving me nuts.

Could this be an IP issue maybe?

[1fallen2]

This one is totally driving me nuts.

Could this be an IP issue maybe?

Possibly, but I would for sure contact Google first. (Take the guess work out)

And No it's not a kernel problem, "Linux Legion-5-15ACH6-zfs 6.11.0-1002-lowlatency"

[maglin2]

I rarely use TB nowadays, but I've just fired it up and it's currently working fine with gmail.
The main reason I now rarely use it (having used it for a decade or more) is that about about a year ago I had the same issue as you (22.04 then). Either no connection or very slow connection to gmail account. This continued, on and off, for couple of weeks. I checked with a neighbour who also used 22.04, TB and gmail and he had the same problem. Different ISP though. Also different IP of course.
The problem cleared, then returned a month or so later.
All this time webmail connection to gmail in Firefox was fine, so I pretty much gave up on TB and have used webmail since.

[Norm24]

I rarely use TB nowadays, but I've just fired it up and it's currently working fine with gmail.
The main reason I now rarely use it (having used it for a decade or more) is that about about a year ago I had the same issue as you (22.04 then). Either no connection or very slow connection to gmail account. This continued, on and off, for couple of weeks. I checked with a neighbour who also used 22.04, TB and gmail and he had the same problem. Different ISP though. Also different IP of course.
The problem cleared, then returned a month or so later.
All this time webmail connection to gmail in Firefox was fine, so I pretty much gave up on TB and have used webmail since.

Exactly the issue I'm having,every so often it seems to be fine and then right back to slow or no connection.I've pretty much given up on this and have put a FF link to Gmail on the desktop for easy access.My ISP and Yahoo mail accounts are still completely functional with TB and all the other clients I've tried just no love from Gmail.Oh well.

[Norm24]

Possibly, but I would for sure contact Google first. (Take the guess work out)

And No it's not a kernel problem, "Linux Legion-5-15ACH6-zfs 6.11.0-1002-lowlatency"

Been trolling Google support and other forums but really haven't found out much as very few if any seem to be having this issue and those that are having it haven't found any reason why this is happening or a solution for it.

[hedgehog123]

If you let Thunderbird create a logfile, you can maybe find some errors. To enable logging for IMAP you could e.g. use

MOZ_LOG=IMAP:4 MOZ_LOG_FILE=~/thunderbird thunderbird

The logfile is then in ~/thunderbird.moz_log

[C.Snyder]

3 days ago, there was a recommended update that I followed up with the usual apt-get update and apt update.
Just yesterday, Thunderbird and gmail stopped downloading the new emails. It says it will send an email but does not want to copy it to the sent folder or the copy process is so extraordinarily slow that I did not wait long enough to see it do so.

Prowling around other forums I only found the advice about settings and add-ons that revealed no reasons for the dysfunction.

Applying some of the suggestions posted to this thread:

$ apt policy thunderbird thunderbird:
  Installed: 1:115.15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  Candidate: 1:115.15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:115.15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:91.8.0+build2-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages

$ dpkg -l | grep thunderbird
ii  thunderbird                                1:115.15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1                amd64        Email, RSS and newsgroup client with integrated spam filter

$ less /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla
/etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla: No such file or directory

Reaching beyond my comfort zone I set up the log file as was suggested in hedghog123's post:

~/thunderbird.moz_log
bash: /home/pablo/thunderbird.moz_log: Permission denied

This change of TB function could not come at a worse time as I am managing a small community volunteer organization and rely extensively on email contact.
And yes, since I upgraded to 22.04 (a clean install) the usual day to day function of this laptop has been slow and somewhat twitchy.

My thanks to those of you who have taken the time to post to this thread.

I hope this thread is not stalled.