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I am impressed

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I have been using Thunderbird for many years, and it's been a while since I cleaned out my Inbox & Folders. I get about 1200 emails a week, so the clutter is extreme. Yet it is still stable, and now I am waiting to see at what level it falls over. Currently I have 84,544 emails in my Inbox, 131,597 in the Junk Folder,33,718 in Archives, 13,388 in another Inbox, and a whole heap which get deleted when I compact the system.

I reckon compacting it has got rid of another 200,000 or so this year.

I am very impressed, well done guys.

[edited email from public support forum]

I have been using Thunderbird for many years, and it's been a while since I cleaned out my Inbox & Folders. I get about 1200 emails a week, so the clutter is extreme. Yet it is still stable, and now I am waiting to see at what level it falls over. Currently I have 84,544 emails in my Inbox, 131,597 in the Junk Folder,33,718 in Archives, 13,388 in another Inbox, and a whole heap which get deleted when I compact the system. I reckon compacting it has got rid of another 200,000 or so this year. I am very impressed, well done guys. [edited email from public support forum]

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christ1
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I am waiting to see at what level it falls over.

Consider yourself lucky. Thunderbird itself shouldn't get into trouble, however, it's very likely that anti-virus software will start messing up Thunderbird mail files at some point, causing corruption, and data loss in the worst case. So make sure to create backups of your Thunderbird profile on a regular basis.

To avoid problems with anti-virus software it's recommended to create an exception in your anti-virus software for the Thunderbird profile folder, so that the anti-virus real-time scanner will not scan it. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_how-to-find-your-profile

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