The same thing is happening when using Seamonkey mail. (SM mail and thinderbird are close-related and share most of the code base ) When You have many messages in your mail box and you are left with no free space on drive, then it tries to re-download all messages. This should be (And I am sure it already has being) reported upstream, because I managed to experience it even on M$ Windows , before I switched to Xubuntu amd64.
** Changed in: mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- Thunderbird download all old messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136803 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs