As per the request in bugzilla comment 7, here is the log from running up thunderbird. Before the run I compacted the INBOX (to about 18MB IIRC). INBOX had no business growing (no new mail during the run), but it tripled in size in a couple of minutes. There were 440 messages in it.
(username & server name modified in this log) - it is Dovecot. ** Attachment added: "tbird.log.gz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1068921/+attachment/3410591/+files/tbird.log.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068921 Title: Mailbox grows endlessly, heavy traffic Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: New Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Yesterday I noticed that my Internet connection keeps transferring a lot of data. After a while I checked with nethogs and discovered this was caused by Thunderbird. Today I got a warning that my HDD was near full. In this 2 days, the mailbox had grown to 20 GB, while in reality it should be around 1 GB (a fresh zipped backup has 600 MB). I removed the .thunderbird folder and configured my IMAP mailbox from scratch. The same happened again. I think this is not related to a somehow special configuration of my PC bcs my colleague discovered it's the same on his machine. Without checking, he wouldn't have noticed yet bcs of a much bigger HDD... We couldn't yet find out what exactly happens / which data is transferred again and again. I suspect it's related to the last thunderbird update. Ubuntu 12.04 Tunderbird 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/1068921/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
