Subject: Small Practical Usenet-Related Question - Keep Thunderbird From Dropping Out

My AT&T "Internet Air" connection has slowly become
worse and worse. NEVER as fast as their 2nd-gen DSL
and NOW, many times a day (oddly late evenings)
the 5G router just randomly goes to all-yellow
blink mode. NOTHING on the net about it. No, it's
not 'updates' ... some kind of major signal drop/err.

MAY have to go to an alt provider. Ugly for
a number of reasons, esp payments. Most
demand a bank routing number these days.
In the USA you have lots of protections
for credit card charges, but NONE for
direct-routing. I expect, have experienced,
evil in this respect.

Cut 'em off ... endless letters about how
they are gonna RUIN your credit rating. That
goes back to CompuServe at least .......

No, NOT gonna go fiber ... for SURE they'd use it
as an excuse to zap my legacy hardwire phone.
Hardwire KEEPS WORKING even in storm and disaster
while the cell towers DROP one by one .....

I'm, alas, OLD now ... DO need at least one
really really solid communications channel.

Alas, in my current prob, ThunderBird does not
seem able to tolerate even a momentary drop in
the connection. Have to terminate, then restart
when the lights go green again. 50% of my posts,
well, have to SAVE them as drafts, kill the app,
then restart and post the draft. Sometimes it
does not remember ... crude copy is the backup,
not so great.

This is TBird + GigaNews.

Has anyone come across an obscure setting that will
increase TBird's ability to tolerate short connection
outages ? Might be seconds, might be minutes.

SO many settings, across several menus. Just can't
FIND what I want ... if it exists at all.


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