Sometimes automatic updates are a blessing and others…..

Mozilla Thunderbird was updated for me today and I now have loads of issues like the following trying to send mail:

An error occurred sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: Cannot connect to SMTP server 61.9.168.249 (61.9.168.249:25), connect error 10060.

The server is bigpond and the connection error leads me to the Mozilla forums, where I guess I am not alone:

General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

User ‘mozine_forums_rw’ has exceeded the ‘max_user_connections’ resource (current value: 20) [1226]

An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.

Cannot save drafts, cannot send, cannot uninstall… hours of messing around at my cost. Bugger!