Unable to move message to Sent folder

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 02/06/2013 01:11 PM, JD 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.

	4GB of Sent messages? Hmm, how far back? and do you _really_ need all 
of them? Must be hard to look through there with that many. Maybe it's 
time to split it up & organize them a bit better, if you can't dump them.


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