Odd Thunderbird bug - any ideas?

[kimpossible]

I send quite a lot of emails, and for some reason lately Thunderbird has developed an odd bug. After I have clicked send on an email, the email doesn't disappear and instead remains visible in the status start bar. If I click onto my "sent" box it will be in there, so has obviously been sent ok. This also doesn't happen with every email.

I can get rid of the "phantom" email from the status bar by opening a new email and just closing it (then the phantom email will go)....but this is getting a bit tedious!

Any ideas how to resolve this?

TIA

[Rosco]

uninstall/reinstall?  Might just be the quickest way

I think the uninstall routine allows you to keep settings (FF certainly does), so they'll be there when you install it again... plus TB 3 is out now anyway in case you weren't already on it

[kimpossible]

Cheers Rosco, that's probably the sensible option!
I've got MozBackup anyway so no worries about losing my settings etc.

Oh and whilst I'm at it might as well download TB 3 then!

[Jeep Stone]

If you use anything like Lightning (Calendar component), watch out as TB3 got a little but funny when I upgraded as it wasn't initially compatible.

[kimpossible]

TB3 fixed the problem.... I'm not totally liking the new look but I'll get used to it.
I had a problem installing one of my add-ons as it reckoned it wasn't compatible.... but it was, and is now working fine.

[neal]

if thunderbird starts playing up, rather than uninstalling / reinstalling it the first thing to try is getting it to rebuild its index for your folders.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders#Compacting_does_not_seem_to_work