281544 - 100% CPU load when loading pop3 inbox with > 1000 messages

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Matt McMinn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)

If thunderbird is left open for over about half a day (approximately), clicking
on the inbox in my pop3 account results in thunderbird hanging while taking up
100% of the CPU.  What it looks like is happening is the mail index is getting
corrupted somehow, because deleting that file (Inbox.msf) and restarting fixes
the problem.  It happens so often however, that I now have a script that deletes
that file everytime thunderbird starts, which is obviously not optimal - but
with that script, I don't have the problem.

This only happens on one of my accounts (I have an IMAP, a pop3, and a news
account), and coincidence or not, the account that it happens on has over 1000
messages in the inbox.

I followed the instructions for sharing mail folders between partitions (windows
and linux), but I don't have the problem on Windows.  Both windows and linux are
version 1.0.   

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Let thunderbird stay open for over 12 hours.
2.  Try to open the Inbox.
3.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird hangs, taking 100% of the CPU.

Expected Results:  
Opened the inbox.

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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