Hi.

I installed Debian 8 Stable and renamed my old .thunderbird folder to .icedove - about once every few days, IceDove crashes. I wonder is that the cause? There's also addons being used.

Also there is the Crash Reports folder: [img]
Which file(s) should I upload?

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I'd recon this is about impossible to solve with the little information you provided. E.g. we don't have the slightest clue what addons you may have installed. We don't know also, what you've tried so far that apparently didn't fix the issue.
My guess is that the file LastCrash may contain some pointer even if only 10 bytes long. (And then it probably won't be me following that pointer, as I don't have icedove and only rarely use thunderbird at work.)

I ran Icedove from the terminal and today it crashed again (I was just going through unread emails).

Here's the output:
Also, here are my addons [img].

Note I replaced some letters and numbers with 'X' as I'm not sure if that's sensitive info.

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its a known with icedove. Use thunderbird.

Hi Erik.

I see. I am on Debian so cannot use Thunderbird.

Sure you can. Go to thunderbird website and download the tar, then untar it. There you will find the thunderbird executable. Create a app launcher that points to the executable to put on Taskbar or wherever u want. You can copy and paste the contents of your icedove profile to the thunderbird profile which will be created under your /home/user/ directory.
Done.

Ah yes, that's easy. There's a file called 'updater' in the Thunderbird folder. Would it be a simple matter of clicking this to manually update TB? The only downside I can see is there's no automatic updating.

I've never used those update files before. At least not manually, maybe they are used during normal updates, I'm not really sure how that works. Anyway, on my work computer I have Thunderbird set up this way and every once in a while I get a Thunderbird pop-up that says Thunderbird cant check for updates. But this is not because in itself it doesn't work, its because I am behind a proxy and I'm not sure how to make Thunderbird updates go through it. If you are not behind a proxy that blocks this auto-checking for updates, then I think it will check for updates on its own and you will probably be fine. At on my home computer, I run Debian as well, and there is no proxy, but I use Icedove as I don't have the crashing with it. Anyway, if I were you, I'd test it and see if it works for you.

By the way, I'm on Debian Stable.

I will stick with IceDove for now - it used to crash about once or twice a week but has not crashed for a while now. Anyway thanks for the tip and I may jump back to Thunderbird (having been on Ubuntu* distros for a while - I always used TB) if crashes increase.

Yep, Jessie is excellent.

Hello again Erik.

Recently IceDove crashed multiple times in the space of about 10 minutes so I switched to Thunderbird as advised by you. No crashes at all so I will stick with TB unless ID gets updates to resolve the crash issue.

Cool, I'm glad it worked for you.