[Bug 383413] [NEW] Large mailbox causes mirrored files

[irotsoma]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

When a mailbox gets very large, it causes the latest message to be
duplicated many times.  I am an amateur photographer and belong to some
mailing lists where users send large photo files.  This mailbox tends to
get into the multi-GB file size easily.  When this happens, the newest
message will show up listed many times.  If you read this message, it
marks all of the duplicates as read as well.  Basically, whatever you do
to one of the duplicates, happens to all of them.  If you delete this
message, the message seems to go away.  As soon as you flip to another
mailbox and come back to that one, there is now a bunch of duplicates
that are blank (no subject, no sender, no content) and an odd date
(something like 12/31/1869 or something like that).  If you try to
delete that one, then leave the folder and come back, it's back.  If you
receive any new mail, then the last message you receive always reverts
to the duplicate behavior.  The only way to get rid of it is to totally
delete the file from the Inbox.sbd folder.  To stop this, I've had to
change my retention policy to only keep files for a week to keep the
file size down.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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Large mailbox causes mirrored files
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