Unable to move message to Sent folder

[JD]

On 02/08/2013 04:10 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> JD wrote:
>> $ pwd
>> /home/jd/.thunderbird/Profiles/zvdfhtln/Mail/pop.gmail.com
>> $ ls -l Sent
>> -rw------- 1 jd jd 4275149616 Feb 5 15:56 Sent
> Personally, I'd be more concerned about a single 4GB text file storing
> all my precious sent data than anything else here; have you particular
> opposition to using MailDir here? I'm pretty sure TB can be coerced
> into it but for some reason would rather not have to...
>
>> 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.
> Could you send us a link to the bug? Is it the case that it is fixed
> upstream (in the Thunderbird you'd get from Mozilla) but the fix
> hasn't made its way down to the Ubuntu distribution of it yet? If you
> install thunderbird straight from Mozilla does it do the same thing?
>
Hi Avi,
all you have to is search the TB bugs db for
4gb size limit
or search for bug source:  jd1008