514157 - all messages are reloaded from POP server whenever disk is full

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239455

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[shusai99]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.13
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.23 (20090817)

Whenever I run out of diskspace, as soon as there is some space regained, Thunderbird starts to re-download all already downloaded messages from the POP3 servers.
Once it starts it cannot be stopped until all messages are downloaded, which lasts quite a while with a few thousend messages.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have Thunderbird runing all the time, check for new mail every 15 minutes
2. Completely fill up your disk (some download, file-extracting, ...)
3. Have some coffee or go for a walk to make sure the disk gets full and stays like that for a while.
4. When back at least the disk-space consuming application should have stopped with an "insufficient space" error, Nautilus also shows "Free space: 0b"
5. Delete some files to gain space
6. Wait till Thunderbird automatically checks for new messages
Actual Results:  
All already downloaded messages from the POP3 servers are re-downloaded and end up as un-read messages (duplicates)

Expected Results:  
Only new messages should be downloaded

I'm using a 32GB SSD that's why I run out of disk-space from time to time. The error happens all the time even on fresh installed systems (Ubuntu 9.04).
My .mozilla-thunderbird folder is about 2GB big, I'm using the standard Ubuntu installation (-> Applications -> Add/Remove).
Following AddOns are installed:
Get all mails 1.0.9
ImportExportTools (Mboximport enhanced) 2.2.3
Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate) 0.3.2
Rikaichan 1.06
Japanese-German Dictionary for rikaichan 1.10

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

when this happens could locate the popstate.dat file and attach it to this bug ?

Comment 2

[shusai99]

Attachment: 6 popstate.dat files in a .zip

These are the 6 popstate.dat files I found. I edited them only to delete the login informations.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

the popstate.dat file contains information about what has/hasn't been downloaded. If your disk is full the information can't be written - hence the issue you are seeing I think.

David thoughts ?

Comment 4

[shusai99]

Yeah, when the disk is full nothing can be written but the action (all the re-downloads) start as soon as there is space available again.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

yes, we should probably be checking for diskspace available before trying to write out the new popstate.dat, or write out to a temp file, and if that's successful, rename it over the original.

Comment 6

[Carlo Alberto Ferraris]

Same happens on Windows XP 32, TB 2.0.0.23.

Comment 7

[galois641]

Same problem here on TB 2.0.0.23 (20090812) on Ubuntu 9.04. I think I've been having this problem ever since I've used Thunderbird. It's quite annoying if you sort mail into folders and have to run the Remove Duplicates add-on on all of them (even worse if you manually sort stuff, then you have to re-sort all duplicates as well!).

Let me now if I can provide any further info to help fix this.

Comment 8

[raphael]

I have the same issue with Version 2.0.0.23 (20090812) on Mac OS X 10.5.7
And on any other system and version that i can remember ever since i am using Thunderbird - a solution would be really appreciated, thank you.

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Apparently working in tb3 - bug 239455.