What to do when your Thunderbird freaks out

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

I will come down on both sides of the argument.  I've had the problem
where it repeatedly rebuilds the indeces.  Annoying.  It doesn't now.  I
have to say I honestly don't remember what I did, so I'm going to assume
that it was simply upgrading.  I don't know the sizes of my mailboxes,
but one of them has over 100k messages (busy mailing list), and I only
bother archiving my inbox when reading stuff in it starts getting too
slow for comfort -- with Dovecot, I don't even know how big that'll be. 
(Note that I have two different accounts, one using Dovecot, the other
Courier-IMAP, and my   Thunderbird 1.07 doesn't rebuild the indeces with
either of them.)

YMMV, $.02, + P&H, etc.,

-Ken

Jon maddog Hall wrote:

>David,
>
>A friend of mine (Lukas Grunwald, a security expert from Germany) is sitting
>beside me and he says that his email folder is 6.8 GBytes.
>
>He suggests that it may be the filesystem you are using, and if it is fragmented
>or if you have a particular type of journaling turned on, that may be the
>problem.
>
>FWIIW
>
>md
>  
>