thunderbird 3 very very big inbox size for imap account

[Luc MAIGNAN]

Hi,

by default, even in an imap account, TB3 downloads messages to allow 
users to read fastly theirs emails. It is a feature you can disable by 
the options.

Le 14/12/09 16:50, Gianluca Cecchi a écrit :
> hello,
> just seen the warning window about low disk space in my /home file
> system (nice introduction in F12 I presume...)
> After searching what has been growing I found this in
> /home/gcecchi/.thunderbird/pe1wv5qu.default/ImapMail/myimapaccount
>
> # ll INBOX
> -rw------- 1 gcecchi gcecchi 22878721204 2009-12-14 16:40 INBOX
>
> almost 23Gb!!!!!!
>
> This is an imap account against an Exchange 2007 server.
> In inbox I have less than 1000 messages where less than 10 are more
> than 1Mb in size......
> So I'm questioning fron where this big size arrives.....
>
> More strangely, I have a mail with 11Mb of size in INBOX.
> I delete it and suddenly INBOX size increases of about 14.7Mb!!!!
> And in the mean time I have received no mail at all....
>
> # ll INBOX
> -rw------- 1 gcecchi gcecchi 22894180950 2009-12-14 16:43 INBOX
>
> Any hint on thunderbird 3 settings?
> Thanks,
> Gianluca
>
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