267338 - Thunderbird continuously rebuilds summary files for sent items, resulting in duplicate messages that are marked unread

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Pat Voce]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.8

When starting TB, summary files for "Sent" Items are rebuilt.  The message
counts are therefore incorrect, and also are marked as "Unread".  Attempted to
remove and rebuild the msf files, however, the behavior continues to repeat itself.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Simply starting TBird produces the activity.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Please see above for brevity's sake.

Expected Results:  
Sent Items folder should maintain correct message count and read status.

none at this time

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[carl]

*** Bug 319982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Ray Booysen]

I saw this for the first time this morning.  TB constantly rebuilt the sent items.

Comment 5

[Tomaz Krasovec]

It is not just sent folder; in most cases I know about (over 50!) there is same problem with indexing in inbox folder. Slower computers (cpu 350 - 800 MHz), mailbox over 1 GB (large attachments) can not rebuild indexes until you move all mail to new folder and delete problematic foder (not in Thunderbird!).
After this procedure mail can be moved back to foldel (if inbox or sent, they are created automatical). More save procedure is to move old mail in separate folder, so each file (folder) is not too big.
What is too big depends on cpu, memory, system...
Problem regulary reappears when folder grows over acceptable size and is connected with bugs, descriped as reappearing deleted mail after raindexation.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Ray, Pat, do you still this problem using current version?

Comment 7

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

No additional useful information since last comment -> resolving incomplete.

Please comment if the issue still occurs in the latest supported 2.0.0.14 / trunk nightlies.