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background folder retention tasks conflict with offline sync

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gcoochey
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I have a lot of folders which I have the retention set to delete messages older than 30 days.

If these tasks are running in the background when I do a "Download/Sync Now..." to retrieve messages for offline use then I get a series of dialogs "The operation failed because another operation is using the folder. Please wait for that operation to finish and then try again"

These dialogs are infuriating, download/sync should intelligently wait or skip folders on which other tasks are taking place.

I have a lot of folders which I have the retention set to delete messages older than 30 days. If these tasks are running in the background when I do a "Download/Sync Now..." to retrieve messages for offline use then I get a series of dialogs "The operation failed because another operation is using the folder. Please wait for that operation to finish and then try again" These dialogs are infuriating, download/sync should intelligently wait or skip folders on which other tasks are taking place.

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Matt
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Thunderbird can not add or modify a folder (file) more than one tread/operation at a time.

Given you are using IMAP. Push notifications should be enabled on almost every mail server by now, so need to press the get button should be very limited really.

gcoochey
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I have push, this is fine for Inbox.

It is not fine for emails that are moved to folders by server-side rules.

My complaint: "download/sync should intelligently wait or skip folders on which other tasks are taking place." still is a valid feature request. If folder modifications need to be single threaded then it is Thunderbirds responsibillity to act single-threaded on folders, and not produce errors when it makes the mistake of doing so.