FC4, Thunderbird, iMail, and . . . no mail.

[VirusDancer]

I am using Fedora Core 4, Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4, and trying to connect to a v5.0 iMail server. When connecting, I get the following error message:

The STAT command did not succeed. Error getting message numbers and sizes. Mail server xxx.xxx.xxx responded: failed to lock or parse or multiple access.

I have looked here and there through various bug reports, forums, and even just websites where people have discussed this. It is funny though, that I can never seem to find the same place twice. One of the recommendations was to try to telnet to the site. Here are the results of that:

[~]$ telnet xxx.xxx.xxx 110
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK X1 NT-POP3 Server xxx.xxx.xxx (IMail 5.08 5862-1)
user xxx@xxx.xxx
+OK welcome
pass xxx
+OK maildrop locked and ready
list
+OK 3 messages (7114 octets)
1 2430
2 2353
3 2331
.

So I know that I can connect to the server without issue. There was another suggestion about copying the prefs.js to create a user.js. Replacing a ? in one of the userpref lines with an actual server #. The problem I run into with that is my prefs.js file is 347 bytes and contains only the following:

# Mozilla User Preferences

/* Do not edit this file.
*
* If you make changes to this file while the browser is running,
* the changes will be overwritten when the browser exits.
*
* To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config
* For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
*/

Well, I am confused . . . any constructive suggestions would be appreciated . . . any suggestions would be accepted.

[Twey]

That's your Mozilla prefs. Thunderbird's will be somewhere else (/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.x/defaults/profile/prefs.js?).

[VirusDancer]

Actually, that is both of them. I did a search for prefs.js and there were two results. Both the one in /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.6/defaults/profile and the one in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/defaults/profile contain the same info and are little 347 byte files.