765476 - mailbox folder with some 32k mails refuses to cope

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Alexander Stohr]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

receiving lots of notifications from facebook.
semi-manually sorting them into a separat mail folder.


Actual results:

after some 32k unread (and some few hundreds of read) mails
the folder choked working. no more mail could be moved to it.
mo meaningful message was produced - just erratic behaviour.


Expected results:

a) find a better was of informing the end user about the root cause of that problem.

b) offer a short time work-around solution for the user (e.g. implement numbered archives, like my_mail, my_mail.001, my_mail.002... for cases where the limit is reached or even)

c) kill such size limitation in mail box folders in general.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

I don't think there is a 32k limit on the number of messages in the folder. I have a test folder with 600k msgs.
Can you try repairing the folder (right click->properties->repair) ?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Alexander ?

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard