301195 - Thunderbird hangs when accessing large mail folder (>500Mb, >12000 messages)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286888

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris January]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

I have a Junk mail folder that has not been emptied for some time. The folder is
approximately 500Mb on disk. When I click on the Junk folder in Thunderbird the
application hangs and is still hung after 20 minutes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Fill the Junk mail folder with a lot mail (e.g. 12000 messages).
2.Try to open the Junk folder by clicking on it in the Folders pane


Actual Results:  
The application hung.

Expected Results:  
The messages pane should show a list of messages in the Junk mail folder.

Comment 1

[Chris January]

I tried compacting the folder and now it can be accessed.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Resolving as WORKSFORME per reporter's comment.

Comment 3

[Ian Graham]

why would you resolve this as worksforme? Compacting the folder is a workaround
for the problem, but it sounds like the problem is still there for those who
wouldn't think to do this...... Reopen? 

Comment 4

[Chris January]

I agree with the above poster.

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

(In reply to comment #3)
> but it sounds like the problem is still there for those who
> wouldn't think to do this...

OK. We'll have it do it automatically then.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286888 ***