[Bug 673497] [NEW] Thunderbird constantly polls on unix socket, slow loading of new messages

[P.Constantine]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

When new message arrives on IMAP thunderbird pulls headers successfully and when I click on the message in GUI it starts "loading" bar at the bottom and tries to "load" the message body for a long time (10 minutes for example).
>From strace on thunderbird process it seems like it's trying to read from fd=3 which is connected to empty socket.

Example for pid=2904

thunderbi 2904  user    3u  unix 0xf0677680      0t0   33622 socket

$ netstat -an | grep 33622
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     33622 

This socket is not connected to anywhere.
Therefore Thunderbird gets EAGAIN error on read.
But it tries to read anyway
Until it gives up and downloads the message body normally.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: thunderbird 3.1.6+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 10 14:51:48 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.6/thunderbird-bin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2162): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2167): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2147): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed

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


** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick

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Thunderbird constantly polls on unix socket, slow loading of new messages
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