I have been using the new version of thunderbird which you inistalled 
for me, and I would like to report that the program continues to 
systematically hang when the AFS token expires.  It often requires 
manually killing the process and manually deleting file locks which are 
dot files.  While I can handle these problems as they occur, they are 
quite annoying. I imagine that digging for file locks are beyond what 
can be expected for general usership either. So I would like to request 
a more systematic solution. (possibly including finding an alternative 
default mail client recommended for the physics/hep afs community.

-aki

rader@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu wrote:
>  > >Re thunderbird: the version on the HEP cluster is three
>  > >years old!  How about I install the latest "off to the side"
>  > >on beebalm and you check into the "hangs hard when token 
>  > >expires" problem?
>  > >
>  > >steve
>  > >--
>   
>  > that sounds like a good idea.
>
> Okay, I put thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (released yesterday!) on beebalm.
> Please try...
>
>  /usr/local/thunderbird-new/thunderbird &
>  [...]
>  unlog
>  [...]
>  klog
>
> ...and report back?
>
> Thanks.
>
> steve
> --
>
>