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Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
28-01-2023 1:28 PM - edited 28-01-2023 1:30 PM
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Well, it seems I spoke too soon. This morning, with the settings still exactly the same as they were yesterday, I'm once again getting the connecting to the news server failed message.
Is there a way of cancelling the FIXED flag?
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
28-01-2023 3:02 PM
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One oddity: when the upload fails, if I open Task Manager, Thunderbird is always shown as running multiple copies: usually 3 sometimes 5. If I then click End Task and immediately reload Thunderbird, the upload works perfectly.
Does that gve anyone a clue as to what's amiss? Many thanks.
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
28-01-2023 4:01 PM
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Two points:
1) To reply to a Usenet post in Thunderbird click "followup", not "reply".
2) As I posted in "everything else", I've found the connection times out after a few minutes so if you've read lots of posts and want to contribute (by clicking "followup"!) it could fail.
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
28-01-2023 4:11 PM
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Stoker, thanks for that.
I twigged about using Followup pretty quickly.
The connection timing out could be the answer, but I used to use a different newsreader (actually Windows Mail) and never once experienced the Plusnet connection going down.
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
28-01-2023 4:44 PM
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What happens if, when you have a problem, you close Thunderbird (using the x) and then restart it? Does that clear the problem, at least temporarily?
With my Thunderbird here I can access Usenet groups when the program first starts but not after a period. I have seen it as a Thunderbird peculiarity - or bug - that I can live with.
If you can get your Usenet working for long enough, there is a support group that you might find useful: alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
28-01-2023 6:47 PM - edited 28-01-2023 6:50 PM
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Brighton Rock,
> What happens if, when you have a problem, you close Thunderbird
> (using the x) and then restart it? Does that clear the problem, at least
> temporarily?
I just tried it and yes, it did. When I checked Task Manager the reading for Thunderbird was (3) but this time I noticed that Firefox was marked as (12) so perhaps I'm mistaken in thinking that that was the problem. This is on the Task Manager "Processes" tab - is that the same thing as multiple copies of the program being open?
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
28-01-2023 7:50 PM - edited 28-01-2023 7:52 PM
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From what I can see there is a relationship between the number of processes and the number of Inboxes and news groups configured
If I open up (expand) both my email accounts and the two news groups (total of four) I see four instances in task man.
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
28-01-2023 8:50 PM
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Dan, that's interesting, thanks. I'll check it.
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
29-01-2023 8:38 PM
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Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
30-01-2023 1:18 AM
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No apology necessary, Jaggies.
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
14-02-2023 1:07 PM
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I think I've solved the problem of the connection timing out if you spend some time reading downloaded messages; then trying to post a reply gives a connection error.
In Server Settings tick "check for new messages every" with an interval of 5 minutes.
(Maybe it could be longer but 5 definitely seems to work).
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
14-02-2023 6:14 PM
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Stoker, thanks for that; I'll give it a try.
Re: Usenet settings for Thunderbird
18-02-2023 12:27 AM
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Stoker, a belated follow-up: it seems to have worked. Many thanks.
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