Constant "Downloading 19xxx of 19xxx in Inbox". The server is a postflix/dovecot
I have an x86 thunderbird client that wont stop compacting. Killing the app just restarts the process endlessly with "Downloading 19xxx of 19xxx in Inbox". The server is a postflix/dovecot setup (if that even matters). Is there a flag in /home/user/.mbox I can remove or add to kill this compacting process? Maybe something on the x86 side?
An gyara daga Wayne Mery
All Replies (8)
THere is at least one bug in version 60 that is being worked on in this area. Please post here again in a couple weeks if there is still a problem.
Wayne Mery said
THere is at least one bug in version 60 that is being worked on in this area. Please post here again in a couple weeks if there is still a problem.
Thank you Wayne, instead of letting this process own cycles and disk i/o for a couple weeks would it be worth switching to the latest beta?
I suspect your issue is partly https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1260698 which itself shouldn't suck a whole lot of cycles even though it may look like it's doing lots of work. This bug is not yet fixed in beta. If you want, you can disable automatic compact until the bug is fixed at options > advanced > network and disk.
The larger, resource sucking issue is the redownloading. This tends to be a problem with the mail provider, but might also be a Thunderbird bug. A few examples https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432879 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=816327 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405259 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461194
Who is your mail provider?
Unfortunately turning off the automatic compact does nothing. Upon relaunching the client it just starts the process over. The system does bog down considerably while this is occurring as I believe it's making a local cache of the mbox, in this particular case an IMAP Inbox with close to 20k messages spanning the life of my business. The mail provider is me, it's a dovecot post fix combo I maintain under opensuse.
linuxknight said
Unfortunately turning off the automatic compact does nothing.
Then I have misunderstood the issue, which apparently is downloading. Surely this hasn't been happening many months. Did something change on your system?
Nothings changed other than a recent tbird update (within last week or two?) and me trying out the compact feature which i've ignored for years on that machine.
linuxknight said
... compact feature which i've ignored for years on that machine.
That could be a problem. Check the file sizes for these files in <profiledir>/ImapMail and <profiledir>/Mail>/Local Folders
I had a minute to check that size today, its like 11GB. I mean, yeah thats a bit of mail but ive kept most all my email since I opened my business in 2012. What was more interesting were the additional folders for the remote resource. I wonder if that had something to do with the looping download? Whatever the case, it finally finished up this AM after running looping message downloads all weekend. I havent had a chance to look at your bugs yet, but will try and find some off hours time to check the links out. Thank you Wayne.
