[Dovecot] Thunderbird problem

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Frank Bonnet wrote:

> Some users had occasionally a problem with Thunderbird , some random emails 
> with attachement(s) cannot be read anymore

Yep.

> the email appears empty

that one, too

> and TB seems to enter in an infinite loop
> saying it is downloading the message

that one in two cases:

1)  after I hit the memory limit in Dovecot causing it to crash and 
Thunderbird happily continues forever to wait for a response.

2) thunderbird opened too many simultaneous connections to the server. I 
do not remember where they would blocked or terminated, but in some cases 
thunderbird did not seem to detect this failure

> After doing that all emails re-appear normally and attachements
> are readable/downloadable again.

In my case the local cache was broken, so any action to rebuilt it was 
helpful:

+ delete the local mbox-cache file
+ hit the "Reindex" button of the folder properties of newer versions of 
Thunderbird

Regards,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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