Unable to move message to Sent folder

[JD]

That is the dumbest statement I have ever heard.
Just because it is ported to multiple platforms
must not be used as an excuse for putting into
The linux/unix port the same limitations as those
of other platforms.
 On Feb 6, 2013 11:17 AM, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 February 2013 18:11, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I tried to move a message to the Sent folder
> > (why? will explain later).
> > I got a banner from Thunderbird:
> > The folder Sent is full, and can't hold any more messages. To make room
> for
> > more messages, delete any old or unwanted mail and compact the folder.
> >
> >
> > So, I looked at the very latest message's "Order Received", which is one
> > of the "sorting" tabs you can click on to display your messages, such as
> by
> > subject, sender, date .... etc.
> > The very latest message has the offset 2097456846.
> > This number is supposed to be thebyte offset within
> > the Sent file where the message begins.
> > But this offset is totally bogus.To wit:
> >
> > $ pwd
> > /home/jd/.thunderbird/Profiles/zvdfhtln/Mail/pop.gmail.com
> > $ ls -l Sent
> > -rw------- 1 jd jd 4275149616 Feb 5 15:56 Sent
> >
> > So, Thunderbird  (17.0.2) is still broken and limited to file size of
> 4GB.
> > Long time ago, I  had opened a Mozilla/Thunderbird bug against this
> > limitation,
> > which Thunderbird devs have closed as fixed.
> > Obviously it is not.
> > Here we are- Linux has been supporting 64bit file sizes for how many
> years
> > now???
> > And yet, TB is still stuck at 4GB.
>
> Linux's limits are irrelevant: Thunderbird is not just a Linux
> program. It is also a Windows and Mac OS X program.
>
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