[Bug 172929] Re: check_all_imap_folders_for_new doesn't work in thunderbird

[Paul J Stevens]

I had this very same problem since upgrading to 3.0.5 on lucid.

Using the 'Activity Manager' in the tools menu, combined with running TB in debug-mode, I traced this to
being subscribed to a non-existant mailbox, probably caused by a bug in the imap server I develop myself.

So apparently, when TB hits a tagged NO response during the STATUS commands it uses to check 
folders, it will give up on checking the remaining mailboxes. You might consider this a TB bug, but only
if you expect clients to degrade gracefully during of server errors. Which imo is not an unusual expectation.

You can run TB in debug mode as follows:

#!/bin/sh

MYDATE=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
NSPR_LOG_MODULES=IMAP:5
NSPR_LOG_FILE=/tmp/thunderbird_${MYDATE}.log
export NSPR_LOG_MODULES NSPR_LOG_FILE

echo $NSPR_LOG_FILE

/usr/bin/thunderbird &
exit $?

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check_all_imap_folders_for_new doesn't work in thunderbird
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