[mediahound]

Leaving Thunderbird running seems to prevent my G5 from going to sleep on it's own (due to no action on the keyboard or mouse for a specified time). Short of quitting Thunderbird every time I step away from the Mac, does anyone know a fix/workaround for this?

Apple Mail can be left open and the system sleeps fine but I don't really want to go back to Mail...

[cmeisenzahl]

First of all, nice Mac!!!! I see your specs in the post.

Are you sure it's T-Bird causing the problem? I don't have that problem w/it on my G4 iBook.

Hmm, I'm running t-bird 1.5. Are you using 1.06 or earlier?

Chris

[mediahound]

I'm running 1.5...but I do have a few extensions running in it.

[butchfoote]

I had the same problem. I had set up TBird 1.5 so that it checked for mail automatically every 10 minutes. I set the sleep time to 15 minutes. It never went to sleep. Apparently when it checks, something in the system resets the inactivity timer for the sleep timer.

I set the mail check time to 30 minutes and the sleep time to 15 minutes and it always goes to sleep as scheduled.