Thunderbird says "You are currently offline. Do you want to go online to get new messages?"

The menu item File->Work Offline is not checked.

Is there another "offline" setting?

Back story: I moved my Thunderbird profile from another user to my new account today following the instructions here. (it's down as I type). This may be a red herring.

I have been sending and receiving happily in the last few hours since - so I remain confused.

(Windows 7 Enterprise).

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Double-clicking the offline icon at botttom-left does nothing. – Dizzley Feb 22 '11 at 21:58
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Well, sitting with Thunderbird closed for a few hours and starting it using the Profile Manager seems to have resolved the situation - I am no longer working offline. Starting Thunderbird via the profile manager is discussed here. I created an empty second profile, unchecked "Don't Ask on startup" and selected my original default profile.

It was either a problem with the profile or an unrelated condition. I'm posting this as a pointer,

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I encountered the same problem and resolved it by closing Thunderbird, killing the process in the Windows Task Manager (it didn't disappear on its own) and then re-starting Thunderbird. All is good again.

The solution was on http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1812665 (found via Google).

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