imap stopped working with new thunderbird package

[Marius Kruger]

After the latest thunderbird upgrade on 12.04 things like imap stopped working.
From my logs it looks like a tunderbird upgrade from 12.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 to 13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 .
If I use synaptic to force the version back to 11.0... (precise) then everything works again.

Symptoms:
1) It seems that it can't connect to my imap servers anymore gmail and company mail
2) It keeps on asking for my password for my gmail calendar and does not seem to be able to use the password store any more.

I tried to disable ipv6 to see if that helped, but no it didn't.
( https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/gmail/NjGgL1MwPEU )

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: thunderbird 13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
BuildID: 20120615181619
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf0900000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'Conexant CX20583 (Pebble HSF)'
   Components : 'HDA:14f15067,1179ffd4,00100302'
   Controls : 9
   Simple ctrls : 6
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xcdefc000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia GPU 0d HDMI/DP'
   Components : 'HDA:10de000d,10de0101,00100100'
   Controls : 24
   Simple ctrls : 4
Channel: release
Date: Thu Jun 28 13:26:39 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
IpRoute:
 default via 10.0.0.2 dev wlan0 proto static
 10.0.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.6 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
NoProfiles: True
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-01 (87 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/04/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: V2.70
dmi.board.name: QOSMIO X500
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV2.70:bd08/04/2010:svnTOSHIBA:pnQOSMIOX500:pvrPQX33E-03W01PF3:rvnTOSHIBA:rnQOSMIOX500:rvrNotApplicable:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: QOSMIO X500
dmi.product.version: PQX33E-03W01PF3
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[Marius Kruger (amanica)]

I tried to run in safe mode, but the problem is still there:
thunderbird -safe-mode
Error: No such tab mode: chat
-- Exception object --
+ fileName (string) 'chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.xml'
+ lineNumber (number) 465
*
-- Stack Trace --
openTab("chat",[object Object])@chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.xml:465
get_selected()@chrome://messenger/content/chat/imconv.xml:121
()@chrome://global/content/bindings/richlistbox.xml:576

In the error console, I get a million of these:
2012-06-28 13:45:46 gloda.datastore ERROR Async queryFromQuery error: 1: near ")": syntax error
There are other errors too, but the above error appears so rapidly that I can't copy it (there is no way to pause the console :(

[Marius Kruger (amanica)]

I tried now with the new package: 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
but it is still broken for me: retrieving messages from imap just hangs
and on startup it asks me every time for my gmail google calender password

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Marius and anyone else affected,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported?

Please let us know if you do otherwise this bug report will expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]