477486 - After importing OE files, TB brand new inbox shows full tried compacting but doesn't help

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Dealio Toolbar 3.4; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Creative ZENcast v2.00.13)
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Again, had OE mail, heard about TB. Downloaded TB from purchased disk online, install transferred files of mail from Outlook Express. Nothing comes to my inbox....when I click on it, says "inbox full"...yada yada...tried compacting but nothing thre to compact, though it says it is full. Can send emails with it, just cannot receive with it. Tried many online tutorials with no postivie result...I need phone  help here...Bob

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Simply click on icon and open mail file
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Actual Results:  
Mail file opens and all looks good, but no emails incoming and click on inbox and says, inbox full....tried to compact, but there is nothing to compact this is  a brand new account

Expected Results:  
Nothing...keeps telling me brand new empty inbox is full.

downloaded new mail and made it accessible to read....

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Dealio
> Toolbar 3.4; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Creative ZENcast v2.00.13)
> Build Identifier: 
> 
> Again, had OE mail, heard about TB. Downloaded TB from purchased disk online,
> install transferred files of mail from Outlook Express. Nothing comes to my
> inbox....when I click on it, says "inbox full"...yada yada...tried compacting
> but nothing thre to compact, though it says it is full. Can send emails with

Can you attach a screen shot of the it is full message please ?


> downloaded new mail and made it accessible to read....

I supose you are using version 2.0 of thunderbird right ?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

What is the size of your inbox, is it larger as 2GB ?
Do you use fat32 or ntfs as file system ?

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter could answer to comment #2, please?

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO due to lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.