More Thunderbird woes

[davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org]

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> From: Patrick Allen <pallen3-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org>
> Date: 2005/04/30 Sat AM 01:09:19 EST
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: [TLUG]: More Thunderbird woes
> 
> 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.

Hung like ... cured meat !
That's exactly the badness I've been battling.

 I'm just wondering if I came up 
> against some kind of size limit or something.

Nope ! I've had mboxes run 100meg + and although slow, Thunderbird (then Mozilla-mail) managed nicely. No, this is a glitch of another colour. 

> 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.

I too have enjoyed mbox mobility. Interesting to note that this weeks gremlins are platform agnostic !

I'm surprised not to have found this googled around the world, surely it's not tlug specific .. UNLESS .. one of you evil geniuses has cooked up a poisoned SIG ... 
djp

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