Neither the "Check for new messages settings at startup" or the "Check for new messages settings every" have any effect. In particular I want to turn off auto-check both at startup and at all other times, so I have unchecked both options. However, Thunderbird still checks for new email both at startup and every few minutes or so. As a workaround I tried to set the "Check for new messages settings every" setting to 999999 minutes hoping that this would at least stop the interval checking. However, that didn't work either. Email still trickles in every few minutes.
This is very annoying and a huge productivity fail. Any productivity manager will tell you to read email only when you want/need to, not when the email application demands it :-)
This is on Thunderbird 12.0 on Ubuntu 12.04. I am using three IMAP accounts.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: thunderbird 12.0~b5+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~mtn3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
Subdevices: 2/2
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: andreas 2453 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20120423103947
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe220000 irq 48'
Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1984'
Components : 'HDA:11d41984,17aa20d7,00100400'
Controls : 32
Simple ctrls : 20
Card29.Amixer.info:
Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 7KHT24WW-1.08'
Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC 7KHT24WW-1.08'
Components : ''
Controls : 1
Simple ctrls : 1
Card29.Amixer.values:
Simple mixer control 'Console',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Channel: beta
Date: Fri Apr 27 19:26:04 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
IpRoute:
default via 128.100.80.1 dev eth0 proto static
128.100.80.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 128.100.80.150 metric 1
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=12.0/20120423103947 (Running)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-14 (13 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/08/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETC7WW (2.27 )
dmi.board.name: 7658CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETC7WW(2.27):bd04/08/2010:svnLENOVO:pn7658CTO:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn7658CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7658CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Did you set all 3 accounts not to check E-Mail?