Thunderbird on ubuntu 10

siawash · 08-22-2010, 12:44 PM

Hello, I just installed ubuntu on my machine. As I do whenever I install a new distro I configure thunderbird to locate mail folder from my external drive. I successfully first time round but on the second install I am noticing thunderbird wont browse to my local folders. Under account settings I have 'server settings' and 'local folders'. I normally point local folders to my drive. But now I notice it wont change. Can anyone explain whats going on? I have included a screenshot. In case anyone suspects permissions I am include and ls output. myhome is a directory attached to my external drive.

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drwxr-xr-x  2 siawacsh siawacsh    4096 2010-08-22 18:00 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  2 siawacsh siawacsh    4096 2010-08-22 18:00 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  2 siawacsh siawacsh    4096 2010-08-22 18:34 Downloads
-rw-r--r--  1 siawacsh siawacsh     179 2010-08-22 17:55 examples.desktop
drwxr-xr-x  2 siawacsh siawacsh    4096 2010-08-22 18:00 Music
drwxrwxrwx 21 siawacsh siawacsh 1110016 2010-08-15 21:06 myhome
drwxr-xr-x  3 siawacsh siawacsh    4096 2010-08-22 18:18 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x  2 siawacsh siawacsh    4096 2010-08-22 18:00 Public
drwxr-xr-x  2 siawacsh siawacsh    4096 2010-08-22 18:00 Templates
drwxr-xr-x  3 siawacsh siawacsh    4096 2010-08-22 18:18 Videos

Noway2 · 09-10-2010, 03:52 PM

Are you still having trouble with this?

I tried looking at your screen shot, but it is so small (100px x 63px) that I can't see any detail as far as the problem you are having.

siawash · 09-11-2010, 01:27 PM

Well, yes and no. Yes because I ended up never accessing my old folders. No because I created another custom folder and started from scratch pointing default folder to this folder.

This is something I should figure out once and for all.

I have few other minor problems i am not sure if I could mention here. Namely,

How to switch from DHCP to Static. I tried this using gnome tools but NetworkManager did't like it so I reverted back to dhcp.

Another issue seems to be my built in microphone does not work while it does when I boot into windows. I tested this using sound recorder and skype.

I will provide more detail on your reply.

Noway2 · 09-11-2010, 04:12 PM

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I have few other minor problems i am not sure if I could mention here. Namely, How to switch from DHCP to Static. I tried this using gnome tools but NetworkManager did't like it so I reverted back to dhcp. Another issue seems to be my built in microphone does not work while it does when I boot into windows. I tested this using sound recorder and skype.

Being the Ubuntu forum it should be an appropriate forum to ask questions like I think you are having, but it may not be the best place. Off hand, the hardware forum may be better place to start for the problems with your microphone. That it works with windows pretty much rules out hardware trouble. I think the next thing to do would be to see if you can determine if the device is known compatible and / or if you need to add a particular driver.

I am not quite sure what you mean by switch from DHCP to static. Are you saying that your laptop(?) is currently configured to use a DHCP server and you would like to assign it to a static IP? See below. Is there are reason you want to make it static; something your trying to achieve like a VPN or server application (there may be more that you would wish to configure in addition to the IP is why I am asking)?

There are a couple of ways to make your IP static: 1-configure your DHCP server to always assign the same IP to your MAC address which would be a pseudo static IP, 2 - via the network manager and 3 - via modification of the /etc/network/interfaces and possibly /etc/resolv.conf. The configuration in /network/interfaces is pretty straight forward and it should pick up the nameserver configuration too, but if not you will need to set something in resolv.conf.

To configure it manually, modify the interfaces file like the following:

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iface eth1 inet static
        address a.b.c.e (e.g. 192.168.0.5)
        netmask x.x.x.x (e.g. 255.255.255.0)
        network a.b.c.e  (this is the base of the network, e.g. 192.168.0.0)
        broadcast (not always necessary but it would be the highest address of your LAN range, such as 192.168.0.255)
        gateway a.b.c.e (the address of your router or modem, in the example addresses it would probably be 192.168.0.1)

In the Network Manager, you would set the same parameters, just through the GUI tool.