276850 - Can't move mail out of the junk folder.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Nebu Pookins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/0.10.1 StumbleUpon/1.998
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/0.10.1 StumbleUpon/1.998

When I move a mail from the junk folder to a subfolder of my inbox, I get the
error message "The message could not be moved or copied to folder because
writing to folder failed. To gain disk space, from the File menu, first choose
Empty Trash, and then choose Compact Folders, and then try again."

My two partitions have 4 gigs and 2 gigs free respectively, so I doubt it's a
diskspace problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a mail from your junk folder.
2. Try it onto a folder in your inbox.
Actual Results:  
I get the above mentioned error message.

Expected Results:  
The software should move the mail into the folder I selected.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

But moving messages from another folder to a sub-folder of the inbox works? POP
or IMAP?

Comment 2

[Nebu Pookins]

It was using POP. I've since then stopped using Thunderbird, so I can't really
help in producing more test results, sorry.

However, after some further poking around, I suspect this might be because my
mail file simply became too large (several gigabytes). Perhaps there is some
code or library function that assumes some maximum file size, and the mail file
is exceeding this size?

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I can't really help in producing more test results, sorry.

=> Invalid