61989 - endless memory consuming with mail check period = 120minutes

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58721

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[André Langhorst]

b: 2000-11-30-20
os: w2k
reproduceable: always
not sure which component this belongs to

try to activeate "check for new mail every [120] minutes", then restart, this
results in an endless memory consuming and will never end until I kill mozilla,
I've already created a fresh, new profile and there I've set this options to 120
minutes too, same effect

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

not a mail database issue, changing component to back end. reassigning to
putterman for triage, cc'ing gayatrib, in case it really is a check for new mail
issue.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

reassigning to racham.  My guess is that 120 minutes is too big a number for us
to handle and depending on the int type we use to store the biff time, this
might end up being a negative number. I haven't done the math to verify this.
If this is the case we may want to prevent the user from entering a number this
high in the account settings.

Comment 3

[André Langhorst]

well, why shouldn't I be able to let mozilla fetch my mails on a hourly,2hourly
basis?

Comment 4

[hirata masakazu]

This must be a dupe of bug 58721

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58721 ***

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Tis indeed.  VERIFIED.