Dear Linux Users Worldwide,
The real cause of the missing folder pane/folder pane not showing up in Thunderbird email
clients for Linux operating systems is extensive and widespread corruption of the *.msf
mail summary files or mail index files. If your *.msf mail summary files or mail index
files are badly corrupted, the traditional usual recommended and oft-quoted solution of
deleting the folderTree.json and session.json files in your mail profile(s) and later
rebuilding them will not work, for sure. Even if you try this solution for 1 trillion
times, it will still not work. This is because the files which are actually corrupted are
NOT the folderTree.json and session.json files. The real files which are corrupted are
your .msf mail summary files!!!
I have been repeatedly and stubbornly trying the traditional usual recommended and
oft-quoted solution of deleting the folderTree.json and session.json files and later
rebuilding them, for a few years, but it did not work out for me at all. Now, today, 15
November 2016 Tuesday, Singapore Time, I have actually solved the problem of the missing
folder pane/folder pane not showing up in Thunderbird email clients for Linux, which has
plagued me for a few years.
Please refer to the following link/URL for my solution to the problem:
http://forums.edmw.xyz/index.php?threads/is-there-a-cure-for-stupidity-re...
An archive (ZIP file 19.7 MB) of the above forum thread is available at the following
Google Drive Cloud link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B96mKCooAF0naXJNNnpYUERncUk/view?usp=sha...
The original reference resource is here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders
Concisely, the solution towards fixing the problem is to:
1) Exit or close Thunderbird
2) Go to your email profile, e.g. /home/user/.thunderbird/<profile-name>
3) Rename the *.msf files to *.msf.bak
4) Start Thunderbird
5) Create a new folder, e.g. "Backup 15 Nov 2016"
6) Move all your email messages from the INBOX folder to "Backup 15 Nov 2016"
7) Check and ensure that all your email messages from INBOX are actually in your new
folder
8) Exit and restart Thunderbird again
9) You should be able to start receiving email messages into your Inbox all over again
For a few years, Thunderbird for Linux had fixed me. Now, I have fixed Thunderbird for
Linux.
Thank you very much for reading.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) @ Time Traveller
Former old abandoned name: Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
SINGAPORE CITIZEN
Mobile Phone #1: +65-8692-1024 (M1 Mobile Postpaid)
Mobile Phone #2: +65-8712-7323 (Singtel Mobile Prepaid)
15th November 2016 Tuesday 5:03 PM Singapore Time
*I am an entry level Information Technology Specialist/Systems Engineer/Linux Server
Administrator/Helpdesk Support/Computer Technician available for hire anywhere in the
world!!! Please contact me for my curriculum vitae/resume. Thank you very much.*