On 11/21/2009 7:22 PM, Thomas wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
I'm getting tired of Thunderbird telling me I have unread messages in folders that haven't gotten new messages for months so I'm looking for a new mail client. [..]
Yes, it's a Thunderbird issue only. Usually that appears when you don't compact your folders (you can ask TB to compact by itself as well). 90% of the time when you have weird stuff in your folders that's because you didn't compact your folders.
I would agree with that if it happened to folder I used actively but I've had thunderbird mark emails as unread in my 2003-2006 archive folder, which obviously hasn't been touched since early 2007 so something weird is going on.
As someone else noted it may be related to the amount of email I have. I probably have nearly 100,000 messages spread across 30-40 folders right now.
Jonathan