I don't recall having that bug happen to me for some time. However, it stops only because I understood what was causing some other problem. You have a feature called "Compact Folders" which is bogus and I think that when that other problem occurs, this very bug happens. I have had it with Thunderbird about 2 years ago (when I finally understood that I really had to compact folders.)
The problem with compacting folders was that if a local file grows beyond 2Gb, its size is (most certain) viewed as being negative, which then prevents the auto-compaction from happen. As a result, the file continues to grow "forever"--or more precisely until it reaches 4Gb or whatever the limit is on your OS/Filesystem. Once that limit is reached, then you start seeing this very bug appearing. I guess something doesn't know how to get rid of that email and it the code generates an error on the save which tells another piece of code to try again and hence loops forever and adds new emails all the time. I'm pretty such that the file that caused the problem was the one representing the Junk folder on my Local Folders. When I deleted that file, the problems stopped and by making sure I run the compact folders once in a while, the size is kept in check. So, it's not fixed if that file size / compact test is not fixed. Actually, compact should become mandatory once the file is over 1Gb. Who needs that much data in emails?! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675673 Title: One junk email repeat thousand of times (until thunderbird is stopped) Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird It is the 3rd time that this happens. I do not know why it would happen, but at some point Thunderbird reads an email, decides that it is Junk mail, and moves it to the Junk folder. Then it repeats it over and over again until stopped by closing Thunderbird (the first time, it duplicated the email 5,501 times). When I restart Thunderbird, the problem doesn't repeat itself. I have used Thunderbird for some time now and it is only recently that this behavior started. It happened 3 times now and each time I can tell that it is one single email being duplicated over and over again. Since I do not know why it happens, I have no clue how to reproduce it. I was thinking that it could have something to do with my filters. If it is possible to export those, I'd be glad to post them here. Otherwise, Thunderbird connects to Postfix to download the emails and that works just fine. Just in case, I verified that the email wasn't duplicated on the server and sure enough it isn't. Thank you. Alexis ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: thunderbird 3.0.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-hostname 2.6.32.21+drm33.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-server x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Nov 15 10:03:14 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/675673/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
