Thunderbird Contamination

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Jun 9 16:05:09 UTC 2008


Jim wrote:
> FC 8 , Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
> 
> I have a friend that has about 300-400 old email messages laying in his 
> inbox of Thunderbird and when he tries to read
> New emails they are mixed in with old ones and some of them are blank, 
> it just a big box of sh-t .
> I removed his emails and AddressBook from Thunderbird, and deleted and 
> reinstalled his AddressBook and old emails
> back into the new Thunderbird , everything was working for a few hours 
> and then here we go again.
> Are there Viruses that affect  strictly  Email  Browsers  like  this ??
> This always seems like that he goes through this everytime he gets a 
> large amount of Emails stored  in his Inbox.
> 

As you kept the mbox's, have you tried to compact the boxes?

I have email going back years on my box with TB and I don't have an 
issues over multiple version updates.  I do know that if I don't 
compact, then I have issues.

I am using Fetchexe to get my mail off the Exchange server and if I 
don't compact the mailbox it goes to, after moving the mail, then the 
mail will reappear.

Compact would be the same as Evolutions expunge in my books.
-- 
Robin Laing




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