imap mail fetch clears and reloads the entire INBOX in a loop
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(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)
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(Reporter: aathan_github, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
At some unknown exact point but over the last few days, Thunderbird on my Mac OS X box, which has IMAP servers defined (services provided by courier IMAP) will, without provocation, re-download the entire INBOX. I have 170k+ messages in this inbox so this is extremely time consuming and renders Thunderbird almost unusable
Actual results:
Thunderbird will sometimes be using 100% CPU and be stuck in the middle of downloading the INBOX, and I need to quit and restart it (sometimes but not always with a force quit). Once I restart Thunderbird it will begin fetching from 0. The Message list clears when this happens and then slowly fills back in as the index is downloaded.
Expected results:
stable fetch of the inbox
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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Forgot to mention that I tried deleting this inbox from ~/Library/Thunderbird and after that, the download terminated and did not loop, at least for a few hours. However, I have no idea if it was because of my action or just random chance, as it is now re-downloading my entire inbox again.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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This was due to a full disk condition on the IMAP server. However, perhaps there is a way for Thunderbird to issue a warning or error to the user when the IMAP server seems to not be remembering the UIDV / or seems to be re-indexing constantly??
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Updated•3 years ago
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Comment 3•3 years ago
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If the IMAP server has full disk and returning nonsense due to that, it's unlikely things could turn out well, sorry.
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