492517 - Thunderbird & Gmail = loss (slow sync, no filters, preferences screwed up)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090427 Fedora/3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: thunderbird-3.0-2.1.beta2.fc11.i586

(originally filed as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500315)

Problem with folders filters. Unsure if TB or Gmail* problem

Since Upgrade to Rawhide F11
Gmail and TB imap sync
221 folders\sub-folders
app 100,000 emails
Some settings disappear from "Account Settings" see attached pic
so filters fail, as a result.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start thunderbrd 
2. sync with gmail.
3.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird slow-sluggish takes houres to download mail,
Constantly re-downloads Inbox, app 700 unsorted emails.

Expected Results:  
Faster sync between TB & Gmail, no disappearing settings

Worked fine in TB 2.x

My (RH bugmaster) comment would be that GMail implementation of IMAP is quite questionable (to say it nicely; http://weblog.timaltman.com/archive/2008/02/24/gmails-buggy-imap-implementation), but probably we have to workaround that if possible.

Comment 1

[Matěj Cepl]

Original reporter also reports about error messages in stderr:

Warning: Timed textboxes are deprecated. Consider using type="search" instead.
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul
Line: 0

Error: no element found
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/am-copiesOverlay.xul
Line: 1

Warning: Failed to load overlay from chrome://messenger/content/am-copiesOverlay.xul.
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/am-copies.xul
Line: 0

Warning: Empty string passed to getElementById().

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) [nsIRequest.name]"  nsresult: "0x80004001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b2/components/nsLoginManager.js :: anonymous :: line 315"  data: no]
Source File: file:///usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b2/components/nsLoginManager.js
Line: 315

Error: updateStatusBar is not defined
Source File: chrome://global/content/viewSource.js
Line: 29

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)

> Since Upgrade to Rawhide F11
> Gmail and TB imap sync
> 221 folders\sub-folders
> app 100,000 emails

This should be a bit faster on recent nightlies. Could we get imap logs ?

> Some settings disappear from "Account Settings" see attached pic
> so filters fail, as a result.

This should be filed as a different bug - and the error messages caught up in the console should go into that new bug.


> Constantly re-downloads Inbox, app 700 unsorted emails.

That is sounds like bug 428316

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

pinged Frank in the downstream bug where he writes
Forgot about this.
Went x86_64.
Problem has disappeared, in upgrades since.
Go ahead and close.

reopen if someone thinks there's anything important here.
=> incomplete