Date: 03/01/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: no keywords

Thunderbird has been giving me a lot of trouble lately. I posted in this community a few weeks ago about Thunderbird crashing multiple times a day, and the crashes keep happening. It usually happens when I'm sending an e-mail-- it gets stuck on "assembling mail information" and there's nothing more I can do. They're just regular text e-mails, no huge attachments or anything. When this happens, I close Thunderbird, then do CTRL-ALT-DEL and close THUNDE~1.EXE in Task Manager. If I don't close that THUNDE~1.EXE program, Thunderbird won't let me start back up. This is really bugging me, and I can't seem to find any solution for it. I can't predict when Thunderbird is going to crash or freeze, but it happens at least twice a day and I lose the e-mail I just typed up. Does anyone know of any fixes for this?

I also have a more recent problem I was hoping for some help with. I have several different e-mail addresses that I use with Thunderbird. My default, primary e-mail address is my university e-mail address, let's call it student@university.edu. I also have a GMail address with the same handle, let's call it student@gmail.com. I created this address so once I graduate, I can simply shift all my university mail over to my GMail account. I have never used this GMail account, and no one really knows about it. The problem is, when I write e-mails with my university address, Thunderbird somehow inserts my GMail address for the reply-to address. I have no idea how it's doing this. When I open the "write mail" box, I double-check that everything says "student@university.edu." It does. However, whenever I receive a reply from somebody, in the part where it quotes my e-mail, it says, for example, "On 2/28/05 12:00pm, "my name" (student@gmail.com) wrote:" and then it quotes my original message. I have double-checked that my university mail is my primary account, and it is. How is Thunderbird switching the addresses? I can't figure it out.

I have completely uninstalled and then reinstalled Thunderbird, hoping it would fix my problems. It hasn't. I'm using a machine running Windows XP Home with SP2, and Thunderbird 1.0. I am not using the "Global Folders" feature-- each e-mail account has their own separate set of folders, etc. Thanks for any help you can give.

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