508264 - Thunderbird folder size limit needs to be increased from 0xFFF00000

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 789679

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Users are hitting "inbox full" more and more often these days, as inboxes grow and so do attachments.  The 4gb limit is unrealistic, and thanks to NTFS, unnecessary.  I propose a filesystem detection routine, which then sets kMaxFolderSize.

kMaxFolderSize is defined here:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/local/src/nsLocalMailFolder.cpp#3834

See also: http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/ident?i=kMaxFolderSize

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Before change to 64bits integer for messageOffset from 32bits integer in Backend by bug 462665, limitaion at 0xFFF00000 was slightly changed to "!4GB-4MB-1MB" like one, and the limiation itself couldn't be removed by change for bug 462665 in Backend.
The "limitation even after 64bits integer use for messageOffset by bug 462665" is being processed by bug 789679.

Duping to bug 789679 to avoid misleading.