I use Thunderbird as my mail client and most of the time NAV 2010 plays nicely with it. However I periodically have two different problems with it:
1) Every so often NAV decides to block outgoing POP and IMAP connections. As I understand it, NAV fools Thunderbird into connecting to the POP and IMAP ports on the local machine, and forwards the data to the real mail servers, allowing it to scan emails as they are received. This normally works just fine, but I have found that occasionally NAV breaks and Thunderbird never manages to establish a connection to any of my mail servers. Stopping Email Protection allows me to collect email again.
2) During its background scan NAV quite frequently finds virii in some of the spam messages that I have received and am not daft enough to open (in fact has Thunderbird often moved them into my Junk folder). It then makes an attempt to remove the attachment from the messages and in the process corrupts the index file for the folder. No such a big deal on the Junk folder, but the odd one has been left in my Inbox and having that corrupted isn't funny. I found that it is possible rebuild the index from the folder properties dialog, but I'd really prefer it not to be corrupted in the first place! The log entries for these removals are horribly cryptic as they refer to just the mail folder and not one of the thousands of messages inside it, which makes deleting them by hand through Thunderbird difficult.
Has anyone else had these problems and is there a fix in the pipeline?
Many thanks,
Robert
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NAV 2010 17.7.0.12 on Windows XP Professional SP3