519749 - Tbird repeatedly indexes/downloads messages via IMAP

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 518702

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[P Nienaber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.212.1 Safari/532.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4

This is presumably only an issue (I'll test once I can get back on my mail account!) when tbird is set to store messages on the local machine.  I have frequently noticed the status bar saying it's indexing or downloading messages in folders I haven't touched in quite a while, and haven't really thought anything of it, until I found myself locked out of my IMAP account today apparently due to excessive bandwidth usage!  A quick search for "Account exceeded bandwidth limits." nets me a bunch of threads here and there, mostly referencing tbird3.  Depending on how people are getting on the 'net, this could potentially incur HUGE bandwidth bills, and should be flagged as a release blocker.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Connect to IMAP mailbox.
2.  Idle for long enough...
3.  Find out that you've used some gargantuan amount of bandwidth.


Expected Results:  
tbird only downloads new mail!

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this should be fixed in tomorrow's nightly build.

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!