More Thunderbird woes

[Patrick Allen]

Greetings,

I've been reading that others have had some problems with Thunderbird, 
and I thought I'd add what I've just experienced tonight.

My setup has 3 accounts, all nicely divided into various folders.  The 
filters do their jobs very well and only rarely do I need to move 
anything "manually".

My TLUG folder was by far the largest at over 8000 emails.  But there 
are no attachments, so the file size was only about 23M.

Just this evening that folder suddenly became impossible to open. 
Attempting to open it brings up the equivalent of the hourglass, and it 
stays that way indefinitely.  The application is basically hung at that 
point.  But it will never time out on its own.

I was able to go into the .thunderbird folder and archive the text file, 
so I didn't lose any of the mail.  I'm just wondering if I came up 
against some kind of size limit or something.

Hopefully that's not the case.  My main reason for adopting Thunderbird 
is that it's very cross platform.  I've actually copied mailbox folders 
from a linux installation to a windows one and it's worked just fine.

Anyone else hit a size limit on folders?




Pat Allen
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