615347 - Add error message to sent Items folder when sent folder is full

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 598104

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt]

Currently if the copy to sent items folder silently fails when a message is sent if the folder has reached 4Gb in size.

I propose that an enhancement is required to remove the silent fail and invoke an error to the user indicating the reason for the failure.  Even better would be for the error dialog to offer to assist the user to move current contents of the sent folder to local folders and delete the existing sent folder so that normal operation can be resumed.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Even after fix of bug 387502, bug 598104 remained on Sent folder. "Adding mail data to file of Sent" itself doesn't fail, so file size of Sent exceeds 4GB limit and can increase, then bug 608449 happens.
bug 598104 is already fixed by Tb trunk and Tb 3.1.7. Following is seen in patch. So I think error messges will be shown in Sent case too.
> +   * Checks if there's room in the target folder to copy message(s) into.
> +   * If not, handles alerting the user, and sending the copy notifications.
Check with trunk or Tb 3.1.7, please.

Closing as dup of bug 598104.