
Thunderbird 140: IMAP keeps downloading old emails. "Downloading message x of y in folder" and it goes folder by folder, some of these folders have a lot of mail so this can take ages.
Greetings
After updating to 140 (release update channel), IMAP folders keep downloading all emails in a folder, even though the vast majority of them are already local. I get the message "Downloading message x of y in folder" and it goes folder by folder, some of these folders have a lot of mail so this can take ages.
I do have a lot of folders and emails, I have tried compacting and searched for weeks, and only very old and not exactly this issue, any ideas?
Daveed
Wot Wayne Mery
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> I do have a lot of folders and emails,
Is this gmail? If not, please list your mail provider.
How many messages tend to be in these folders?
> I do have a lot of folders and emails, I have tried compacting and searched for weeks, and only very old and not exactly this issue, any ideas?
I do not understand the context of this statement - version 140 has only been out about one week.
> Is this gmail? If not, please list your mail provider.
The provider is Rackspace
The folders themselves have 40-2000 emails, and the inbox is rather large. 26000 messages in total.
I realized that fixing the msf file might help, and sure enough this seems to not only take care of the issues it also took care of the error I was getting on the inbox when compacting.
The issues started when I update to "release" stream. I would suggest that, if possible a repair of the msf should be attempted, and might correct the issue for large mailboxes.
Daveed
Wot Wayne Mery