Posts Tagged ‘Thunderbird’

How to disable GNOME popup notification in Debian Wheezy Linux

Friday, August 2nd, 2013

how to disable remove GNOME 2 / 3 popup e mail notification Debian Ubuntu Linux screenshot

I found it very annoying to have a pop-up notification every time I receive a new email it is just pointless there especially, when I already use Thunderbird (IceDove) to fetch my email via pop3. This pop-up notification though planned to be useful messes with my Desktop and breaks the habit on how I'm used to old GNOME interface…. I remember same popup notification was present on older Fedora releases (back in time when I used Fedora Linux for my Desktop).

disable Gnome popup notification new email Debian GNU Linux Wheezy 7 screenshot

My logical guess was in order to disable popup notification in GNOME 3 I had to tamper with gconf-editor. In gconf-editor config database there is:

Apps -> Notification daemon

Problem it is not possible to turn it off. Only available change options are:

default-sound, popup_location, sound_enabled, and theme

After some time of try / fail attempts I found the solution on linuxquestions forum, its quite raw solution but it works, all I had to do is change permissions of /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon;

debian:~# chmod 0000 /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon

Another thing that is handy to disable is POP UP Window with warning that you have low disk space on Hard Drive.

The warinng for Disk space is very annoying and popups up on every GNOME boot. Actually the hard drive with Low disk space is and old mounted partition in NTFS and I only use it to read data.

Here is how to disable HDD Notification Warnings in GNOME:

debian:~# chmod 0000 /usr/lib/gnome-disk-utility/gdu-notification-daemon

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How to fix mysteriously disappeared Thunderbird e-mail message pane, Hide / Show Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail message window

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

Recently I did something so my standard Thunderbird e-mail message pane disappeared. I was not sure what happened so my logical guess was I had to do something from View menu, i.e. change something in:

View -> Layout or
View -> Toolbars
Anyways after taking close look in View, I realized can't fix it from there. So tried changing settings in:

Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced (tab)-> Reading & Display
Thunderbird edit preferences advanced tab Reading & Display screenshot

I tried changing setting for Open messages in with no luck. Finally after some more googling I got the fix under Mozilla Community Q&A site here. The fix is as simple as pressing F8Pressing F8 makes e-mail message pane appear or disappear, like shown in below screenshots …. Thunderbird with missing e-mail message pane

Thunderbird screenshot with e-mail message pane

That's all problem solved 🙂

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Thunderbird mail check problem fix to: “An error occurred sending mail: Unable to establish a secure link with SMTP server smtp.examplehost.com using STARTTLS since it doesn’t advertise that feature.”

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

Some clients of one of the qmail servers mail domain complained that there are problems sending e-mails with Thunderbird (pop / imap) client.

The exact Thunderbird sending error is:

Unable to establish a secure link with SMTP server smtp.examplehost.com using STARTTLS since it doesn't advertise that feature.
Switch off STARTTLS for that server or contact your service provider.

For for almost half an hour I pondered why the heck this odd error happens in sending mails with a fresh new Thunderbird (auto) configured mail address.
Few months back some clients were experiencing similar STARTTLS errors so I went back to check my previous post to get an idea what was wrong then in order to determine if the current reported error had to do with the previous one. My previous post is here – How to work around STARTTLS Qmail Thunderbird / Outlook mail sending (error) issues

After reading on the previous error and some assumptions I found out the whole problem lays in incorrectly set DNS records.
By default Thunderbird (and probably other mail clients) are configuring automatically as SMTP server (smtp.examplehost.com) if the DNS record for smtp.examplehost.com points to an IP address / host which belongs to another mail server, everytime thunderbird tries to send email the incorrect smtp.examplehost.com is used, hence the mail sending fails with the err:

Unable to establish a secure link with SMTP server smtp.examplehost.com using STARTTLS since it doesn't advertise that feature.
Switch off STARTTLS for that server or contact your service provider.

In my case the DNS for examplehost.com which is the mail server host was managed by Godaddy’s DNS-es:

ns49.domaincontrol.com
ns50.domaincontrol.com

The A record for our domain smtp.examplehost.com was by default set in GoDaddy to point to incorrect IP, so the fix was simply to change the Domain alias of smtp.examplehost.com to the proper mail host.

Another thing I had to do is change variables in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run and /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpdssl/run

In both files I changed variables:

SSL=0
ALLOW_INSECURE_AUTH=0

to

SSL=1
ALLOW_INSECURE_AUTH=1

Also variables FORCE_TLS and DENY_TLS in /var/qmail/supervise/{qmail-smtpd,qmail-smtpdssl}/runs should be:

FORCE_TLS=0
DENY_TLS=1

Though the problem was occuring in Mozilla Thunderbird, i’m sure same email sending problem will be present if Microsoft Outlook Express or any other desktop pop3 client is used.
After this changes I had to restart qmail server through qmailctl:

# qmailctl stop; sleep 5; qmailctl start

This fixed clients mail sending issues … hope this will help to others looking for way to remove STARTTLS, TLS, SSL qmail support …

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Cause and solution for Qmail sent error “Requested action aborted: error in processing Server replied: 451 qq temporary problem (#4.3.0)”

Friday, October 28th, 2011

One of the qmail servers I manage today has started returning strange errors in Squirrel webmail and via POP3/IMAP connections with Thunderbird.

What was rather strange is if the email doesn’t contain a link to a webpage or and attachment, e.g. mail consists of just plain text the mail was sent properly, if not however it failed to sent with an error message of:

Requested action aborted: error in processing Server replied: 451 qq temporary problem (#4.3.0)

After looking up in the logs and some quick search in Google, I come across some online threads reporting that the whole issues are caused by malfunction of the qmail-scanner.pl (script checking mail for viruses).

After a close examination on what is happening I found out /usr/sbin/clamd was not running at all?!
Then I remembered a bit earlier I applied some updates on the server with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade , some of the packages which were updated were exactly clamav-daemon and clamav-freshclam .
Hence, the reason for the error:

451 qq temporary problem (#4.3.0)

was pretty obvious qmail-scanner.pl which is using the clamd daemon to check incoming and outgoing mail for viruses failed to respond, so any mail which contained any content which needed to go through clamd for a check and returned back to qmail-scanner.pl did not make it and therefore qmail returned the weird error message.
Apparently for some reason apparently the earlier update of clamav-daemon failed to properly restart, the init script /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon .

Following fix was very simple all I had to do is launch clamav-daemon again:

linux:~# /etc/inid.d/clamav-daemon restart

Afterwards the error is gone and all mails worked just fine 😉

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Make Icedove a.k.a. Thunderbird have a Gnome look

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I wanted to make my preferred mail client application Thunderbird look a bit more decent and Gnome like. Thus I’ve downloaded tango_icons_for_thunderbird-0.7.0-tb.jar . The add-on is also available for download via Thunderbird’s Official Addon web page . Another option for changing the outlook of Icedove (as named in Debian for some licensing reasons) is to use GNOME-Tb2 a thunderbird theme addon by Hugo Gonçalve. END—–

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How to change stored password in Mozilla Thunderbird

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Everytime I have to delete a wrong stored password in Thunderbird
I have to google in order to find the exact location of where
was the menu that allows me to delete the stupid wrongly typed
password. Therefore I decided to blog it just to make it easier
for me while looking for the dumb menu again and again.
Here is how to navigate to the stored password dialog:
Go to:Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy – Passwords -> Edit Saved PasswordsCheers!END—–

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