Enh Req: Create 3 rotating hard links to Inbox when Thunderbird starts.
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(MailNews Core :: General, enhancement)
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Steps to reproduce:
Thunderbird Nightly deleted my Inbox, both on 11Apr25 & 18Apr25
I opened Thunderbird Nightly and found nothing in the Inbox.
I looked in the email directory and found only 6 new emails in the Inbox file.
I restarted Thunderbird and saw the emails.
I used Tools to run filters on the Inbox, all new emails were moved to my folders.
Actual results:
I restored the Inbox file from backup but lost about a month of emails.
Expected results:
The Inbox should have been preserved.
On my Thunderbird, a lot of things happen at once -- it checks maybe 10 POP email addresses, the filter throws the emails into different folders and it may have to respond to the user wanting to read an email. The popup which tells users not to do stuff doesn't always appear. I suspect a problem with locking or not locking.
This is not a request to fix Thunderbird, though that would be nice. I suggest creating a rotating hard link "Inbox.bak", "Inbox.bak2", "Inbox.bak3" (remove & recreate the oldest hard link if it exists) to the Inbox file before attempting to modify it. The hard link would preserve the Inbox if a bug deleted it and might also help analyze the problem. You probably should also disable this by default but allow users who have the hard disk space to enable it -- I would enable it.
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Comment 1•17 days ago
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Sorry I don't think that's the solution. Though obviously we want to track down and fix all such issues so they don't happen in the first place.
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