Bug 543942

Summary:	Thunderbird continuously indexes inbox.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Bart Whiteley <bwhiteley>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_HjfGXHkK4k, r.cabane
Version:	Milestone 8
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Bart Whiteley 2009-10-02 19:14:34 UTC

In the last 1/2 hour, Thunderbird has indexed my inbox about five times.  As soon as it gets done, it starts over again.  I have 9000 messages in my inbox, so indexing takes several minutes.  It always seems to start all over, instead of just indexing messages that arrived since the last time it indexed.

Comment 1 Bart Whiteley 2009-10-02 23:06:30 UTC

Note, this also fills the filesystem quite quickly. The file containing the inbox under ~/.thunderbird is growing at a rate of about 100MB/hour. I'm only receiving about 10 emails/hour at this time, with no attachments.

Comment 2 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2009-10-07 05:11:38 UTC

Do you also see if your messages get downloaded multiple times.
Do you download all messages (default in 3.0) locally or do you only access them via IMAP? Or any other setup?
Please also look at the error console and attach it or paste it here.

Comment 3 Bart Whiteley 2009-10-07 05:31:16 UTC

> Do you also see if your messages get downloaded multiple times.

Haven't noticed that. 

> Do you download all messages (default in 3.0) locally or do you only access
> them via IMAP? Or any other setup?

I download locally. 

I've since remedied the problem by deleting INBOX and INBOX.msf, and then let tbird rebuild them.  In addition to solving the continuous indexing problem, it reduced the size of INBOX by a factor of 100 (not sure why).

Comment 4 Robert CABANE 2009-11-09 20:53:31 UTC

Nice solution. I try it.

Comment 5 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2009-11-23 21:18:33 UTC

Closing that for now as it seems to be gone.

Comment 6 Bart Whiteley 2010-04-13 17:38:35 UTC

This bug appeared again about a week ago.  I have no idea what triggered it.  This time, deleting the INBOX does not fix the problem.  

Also, the message count seems to increase nonstop.  It currently says 
"Indexing 75039 of 75039 messages (99% complete)"

All of my folders totaled have less than 20k messages.  The message counts increase by about 10/second, and it always says 99% complete.

Comment 7 Forgotten User HjfGXHkK4k 2011-01-10 06:35:03 UTC

Bart, do you also see this in Thunderbird 3.1?  (3.0 had a variety of issues)

Comment 8 Bart Whiteley 2011-01-10 15:57:48 UTC

I don't think this is happening anymore.