I can confirm that KarlGoetz's workaround solved the issue in my case. Renaming Inbox.msf caused a new Inbox.msf to be created, and all emails were then viewable upon thunderbird restart. Generating the msf file took ~30 seconds for a 2GB inbox on an average laptop.
For searchability, here were the symptoms that the workaround fixed: - opening a recent email (from yesterday) would actually open an older email with a very similar subject string (from 2007) - some emails were entirely blank - both body and header - and their source did not resemble anything like an email (it appeared to be a jumble of characters, maybe base64?) - some email text appeared cut off mid-sentence. - having any sort of media in/attached to an email seemed to cause these symptoms. The few plain-text emails I opened were unaffected (though I didn't test this thoroughly). Oddly, the old msf file was 1.7 MB, and the new one only 1.4. Hope this helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379629 Title: thunderbird corrupting email since 20090519 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
