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Thunderbird stopped working out of the blue!

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I am using TB 68.8.0 (32-bit) (release update channel) on Windows 10.

I have configured TB to work with several Gmail and Outlook accounts (all POP3). TB was working fine till a day back. Today when I started it up, it starts up, but is not downloading any of the emails. If I click on 'Get Messages, I get an error message ('Failed to connect to server pop.gmail.com' or 'Failed to connect to server pop-mail.outlook.com') and nothing happens.

The only change I remember doing recently is to update TB a day back. I strongly suspect that this has something to do with the latest update.

Can somebody help me?

Thanks!

I am using TB 68.8.0 (32-bit) (release update channel) on Windows 10. I have configured TB to work with several Gmail and Outlook accounts (all POP3). TB was working fine till a day back. Today when I started it up, it starts up, but is not downloading any of the emails. If I click on 'Get Messages, I get an error message ('Failed to connect to server pop.gmail.com' or 'Failed to connect to server pop-mail.outlook.com') and nothing happens. The only change I remember doing recently is to update TB a day back. I strongly suspect that this has something to do with the latest update. Can somebody help me? Thanks!

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I don't know what happened, however, after a few hours the issue resolved by itself!

I don't think that it is a problem related with Internet connectivity as I was able to browse the internet normally when TB had this issue.