unable to write a new mail after last update

[GodNobody]

After the last upgrade of thunderbird yesterday, I'm unable to compose new mails or answer to mails.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: thunderbird 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-2.3-generic 3.0.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.0-2-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 29 17:59:30 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-16 (13 days ago)

[Beth Marmorstein (purplegamba)]

I'm having this problem as well. When I try to compose a new message (either by clicking "Write" or "Reply" or "Reply All"), it pulls up an empty new message window. The "From:" field is empty, as is the drop down menu. I cannot select or type in a From address. When trying to reply to an existing message, it ought to auto-fill the "To:" field and quote the text of the original message, but those fields are also empty. I can fill in the "To:" and "Subject" fields, but cannot type in the main message window at all. Having entered a To: address and subject, I clicked "Send" to try sending an empty message - nothing happens.

This bug makes it completely impossible for me to send e-mails from Thundbird. I can still check my e-mail there, but have to pull up my email in a web-browser to send anything. If this bug is not fixed soon I will have to switch to a different mail program.

[Beth Marmorstein (purplegamba)]

Installing (via apt-get) thunderbird-thunderbird-locale-en-us fixed the problem for me.

[Beth Marmorstein (purplegamba)]

Still not sure why that was necessary. Did something get uninstalled during the update or did this package suddenly become necessary when it wasn't before...

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Godnobody,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Presumably your issue was resolved some time ago and this bug report can now be closed?

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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