strange filter/target folder problem
Hello,
let me tell you that I have a few hundred email filters defined, and they (almost all) work fine.
There are three filters that cause problems, and it looks like the problem sticks to the sender.
Let me expand: FAZ, REWE, and Campact cause problems. Two out of three emails from these senders can't be moved to the target folders. I get a pop-up messeage telling me that I have to repair the folder. I do so, and a few days later the same problem comes up. Just for these three senders.
I searched all folders for filters for these three and removed all filters I could find.
Then I created a new folder as a child to the inbox folder, and a new folder inside of this folder to hold emails from FAZ. I defined a new filter rule, as the old ones were removed. Worked for a few emails, and, voila, the message pop-up came again, telling me there are problems moving the email over to the (new) target folder.
Let me repeat: all other filters work fine, just emails from these three senders cause problems.
Any idea where I could have a look, a switch to check?
One last information/idea: all three have different email addresses they send from, I will check the ones that do not work, maybe there is a clue.
I am using POP3/SMTP, not IMAP.
Hoping for a tipp, a clue, an idea -
Georg
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is that FAZ, REWE, and Campact or as this appears to be German are we dealing with email addresses that use unicode and non ANSI characters.
For example außer would make for a problem as it is not entirely ASCII or ANSI.
Hello, Matt -
good observation, but all email addresses do not use non ANSI characters, and they also don't use German umlauts or special characters as the ß.
The problem the popup to refers is always a problem with the folder where the email should be moved to. I will take a screenshot the next time that such a popup occurs.
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The problem the popup to refers is always a problem with the folder where the email should be moved to. I will take a screenshot the next time that such a popup occurs.
Good idea.
Make sure you do not have an antivirus scanning within the Thunderbird profile folder. Many issues with apparent corruption are caused by the file contention that their scanning invokes. The contention issue come as a function of how slow the antivirus scanning is, the size of the files on disk and the frequency they are opened.
In the case of say three consecutive emails being filtered to the same folder, Thunderbird may open and close the underlying file three times, not once as it did in years past. Each email action is now a discrete function because there used to be loads of IMAP timeouts happening because again of scanning delaying the IMAP sync. Now the issue has moved to the local folders because there does not appear to be any end to the number of times antivirus products will scan the same thing, let alone in a few second windows. ince on the wire downloading it, again on the wire sending the seen or read flag back to the serve, in memory once it arrives and again when Thunderbird commits the mail to disk. And that is for a normal text email add another delay while it decodes any attachments from the text based MIME and forms them back into their original binary format and scans those separately. If I sound like I am down on antivirus products you would be right.
Could it be those problem folders be your three largest frequently used folders?
The only ones greater than 1Gb in size for instance. Right click them, select properties and check the actual size on disk.
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