Automatic folder compacting does not work

[Paweł Stołowski]

Thunderbird automatic folder compacting option (Preferences > Advanced > Network & Disk Space > Compact all...) doesn't seem to be working. With this option enabled, my ~/.thunderbird folder was taking ~30GB and I had to manually click "Compact" on each folder to get it down to 3GB (!).

Please note that there is another bug about excessive mailbox size (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1068921), but this one is strictly about broken automatic folder compacting.

Ubuntu Release: 12.10
Thunderbird: 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu2
Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805447

[Paweł Stołowski (stolowski)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121010223843

Steps to reproduce:

Thunderbird automatic folder compacting option (Preferences > Advanced > Network & Disk Space > Compact all...) doesn't seem to be working.

With this option enabled, my ~/.thunderbird folder was taking ~30GB and I had to manually click "Compact" on each folder to get it down to 3GB (!).

Actual results:

Mailbox grows endlessly and is not compatected, even though automatic folder compacting is enabled.

Expected results:

Mailbox is automatically compacted with no need to manually click 'Compact' on each folder.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[EsoRottica (bcrist22)]

up to 36GB. As a side note, I have two accounts, both from Gmail. One is an apps account, the other a regular gmail account. On the apps account I have too many devices connected and receive an error of account command or bandwidth exceeded.

personal temporary resolution, Move ~/.thunderbird folder from SSD to backup HDD and create symlink to new location

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

Pawel, do you also see this with version 17?

[Paweł Stołowski (stolowski)]

Wayne,

I don't. It seems to work ok in 17.0.2.

[Pppx (pppx)]

Resolved per whiteboard and Comment 2

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug was closed "RESOLVED WORKSFORME" on 2013-03-21
Reporter advised he did not see the issue in the next release
Closing as "Invalid" as no further comments for nearly six years