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thunderbird issue in Ubuntu only

Asked by izzy200198

Im wondering if anyone has encountered this issue with Thunderburd in Ubuntu. I use thunderbird in Windows XP and recently decided to install Thunderbird in Ubuntu 8.10 and copy my mail folders over. Everything seemed ok. But when i checked for new messages from gmail I noticed T-bird displayed the new message incorrectly. the sender name was correct. but the subject and body of the email were from a very old email. even if i delete that old email, the next time i check for a new message it will even display the contents of the now deleted email.

i tried reinstalling T-bird and creating a new inbox. then coping the old inbox as a copy of the inbox. then open T-bird and manually moving emails from "copy of inbox" to "inbox". what i noticed was the inbox worked when it was empty and again at 12,000 emails. but somewhere around 19,000 emails i encountered the same problem.

as far as i know T-bird doesnt have a maximum mailbox size or maximum number of emails it can store. And i dont have this issue at all on XP. So it appears to be a problem specific to running on Ubuntu. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Joe

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izzy200198 (izzy200198) said : 		#1

ok, i have confirmed there were some problematic emails which have now been eradicated. what i did was export all mail to eml using importexport tools in ubuntu. but what i noticed was that the folder i exported too contained a few less emails than what was in my inbox. i then created a test inbox and imported all the mail into that. i noticed the email count of my test inbox folder matched my inbox but i knew this could not be because the folder didnt contain that many emails. I figured it somehow got that number from the index file it created when it originally exported. so i right clicked on the test inbox and selected properties... rebuild index. when it was done its email count matched what i knew to be in the exported folder. i then deleted the contents of my original inbox and moved all these newly imported emails from the test folder into the inbox. i then started checking new emails. and bingo the problem was gone. all emails now come in fine. and i can continue to work exactly as i had before.