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Thunderbird stopped working. "Get Messages" does nothing.

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firefox1115
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So yesterday everything was working fine, today Thunderbird is dead.

I run my own mail server. It's using a self signed certificate which never was a problem before - and I'm not sure it's the source of the problem now. When I click the "Get Messages" button, nothing happens. I'm not getting an error pop-up, nor an error message in the status bar at the bottom. Nothing happens. However, if I look in my mail server's log file, I see this appear:

2024-08-04T17:47:14.983935+02:00 enterprise dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Connection closed (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=<my ip address>, lip=<server's ip address>, TLS, session=<7SV7ed0eXTTVSYV6>

It doesn't matter if I try to retrieve mail through POP or IMAP. The exact same thing happens. It's not the mail server. I have another mail client and it is able to retrieve my mails just fine.

I deleted the account's passwords. Didn't help. I removed the Certificates. Didn't help.

So what's going on here?

So yesterday everything was working fine, today Thunderbird is dead. I run my own mail server. It's using a self signed certificate which never was a problem before - and I'm not sure it's the source of the problem now. When I click the "Get Messages" button, nothing happens. I'm not getting an error pop-up, nor an error message in the status bar at the bottom. Nothing happens. However, if I look in my mail server's log file, I see this appear: '''2024-08-04T17:47:14.983935+02:00 enterprise dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Connection closed (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=<my ip address>, lip=<server's ip address>, TLS, session=<7SV7ed0eXTTVSYV6>''' It doesn't matter if I try to retrieve mail through POP or IMAP. The exact same thing happens. It's not the mail server. I have another mail client and it is able to retrieve my mails just fine. I deleted the account's passwords. Didn't help. I removed the Certificates. Didn't help. So what's going on here?

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