Closed Bug 312345 Opened 20 years ago Closed 17 years ago

TB Gets all mail (including previously popped mail) from server if download interrupted

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: preetham, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1 I have seen this with TB 1.x and even in TB 1.5 Beta. My mail setting: POP3, with Leave messages on Server for "5" days. I occasionally see that TB tries to download all email present on the POP server even though some of them have already been downloaded. It looks like popstate.dat file gets corrupted and this casues TB to refetch all mails on the server since it does not remember those it has already downloaded. I guess this happens when a "Get messaegs from Servere" operation is interrupted before it completes (the download is still going on). At this point, perhaps the popstate.dat file gets corrupt, and the next time I try to get messages, all messages from server are POP'ed. The setup: You have mails on the pop server and some of them have already been downloaded. Now, you do a "Get new messages from server" Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Get messages from Server 2. While 1 is going on, interrupt the operation (like make the mail server not reachable) 3.Start "Get message from Server" Actual Results: TB gets all messages from server including those which have been got before. Expected Results: TB should only get those email which have'nt been got before
I have almost the same problem. The differerence is that the mails are not on a popserver but every ten minutes they are all (3000) downloaded again. It started after an update and a copied my mail folder on another place on my PC. I am using the latest testversion. Marco
version 2.0.0.16 (20080724) I have not seen this problem off late. Will update the bug if I encounter it again.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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