603664 - recipient full when file reaches 4 Go size

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 462665

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Le Gluon du Net]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; fr-fr) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9
Build Identifier: 3.1.x

At work I receive a lot of mail with attached document so my recipient is full after two months (file=4 Go). But I'm not workig on a fat32 system but on a flesystem wich support more than 4Go file siz. So why Thunderbird limits his file to 4 Go. It's a very annoying bug for, I don't have the time to backup my mail every one or two monts and in this case, the autobackup functionnality of thunderbird is useless.
Please help.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Limits_-_Thunderbird#Folders_and_messages

Use mailfolders to organize your mail. Each mailfolder is a separate file.

Comment 2

[Le Gluon du Net]

It is a bug or a limit of the thunderbird file format?
It is planned to increase this limit in a future realize? In the 3 branches?

Thanks.

LGDN

Comment 3

[Le Gluon du Net]

Thank you for your reply Jo.
I'm using mailfolders to organize my mail each time my principal recipient is full, but I don't think It is very friendly.

LGDN

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> It is planned to increase this limit in a future realize? In the 3 branches?

Yes.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

restoring duplicate state