On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Karl Schmidt wrote:
Something came up that Confounded problems in my move from UW-imap to dovecot. I found a problem with the new icedove update in Debian lenny when moving from 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.14b.dfsg1-0etch1 to 2.0.0.9-3 that could look like a dovecot issue. Icedove runs for a while but eventually quits updating the displayed email, yet appears to be working and busy trying to get messages from the server. I think it is related to message filters, but not sure.
The fix was to move .mozilla-thundrebird somewhere and restart icedove and create a new profile. There may be a more elegant fix.
I guess you should file a bug against Thunderbird or Icedove! That seems like it corrupted its state in a way that it surely should not have!
-- Asheesh.
-- Interchangeable parts won't.