Yes I do see this as well, I've not figured out any solution to the 
problem.

Also the "trash" folder on my Thunderbird seems to have stopped showing 
new messages sometime in January -- even though newer messages appear 
when I go to my trash folder on MSU web mail.  No idea if this is 
related or not.

Brian

On 3/1/11 1:02 PM, Peter J Murray wrote:
> We are an MSU email shop and many are on Thunderbird 3.1.7 (the latest 
> as of now).
>
> I'm getting reports that mail.msu.edu times out on putting messages in 
> the sent folder and/or sending outgoing messages, causing much 
> frustration.  Has anyone else ran into this issue?
>
> Peter Murray
> James Madison