Does Thundergird Crash when to many Emalis in Inbox ??

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 17:53 -0400, Jim wrote:
> FC8
> Does Thunderbird crash when you have  to many emails in Inbox ??
> I have a friend that has had thunderbird crash three times in one year 
> he says he has 600 emails in Inbox, and I check to see how many emails  
> are in his inbox and there isn't 600 email there. But he does leave a 
> lot of emails in the Inbox.

What OS? What email protocol (POP, IMAP, ...)? Is the Inbox on a network
filesystem? Does he have a spam filter on his local machine (i.e. not on
the ISP's server)? How about other filters?

> You try to read emails and they are not emails from the person that sent 
> them ,they are from someoe else.

I don't understand this. In what sense are they not from the person that
sent them? Do you mean they're fake, e.g. spam or phishing attacks? If
so, this has nothing to do with TBird.

> Is there something wrong with Thunderbird that causes it to crash, when 
> you get to many emails in the Inbox ??

Certainly not with 600, that's nothing. If the Inbox is on a nearly-full
filesystem or one with hard quotas, that could matter.

> Is there a better email browser, not Evolution.

Personally I use Evolution, though it has some faults, but I don't want
to start a flamewar here. TBird should be perfectly OK for the great
majority of users.

> Is there a virus out there that affects email boxes, he gets email from 
> all over the US, I have never seen one person get so emails as he does.

Extremely unlikely. We are talking about Linux, right? Of course if your
friend's machine has no security at all, all bets are off. For example,
if he regularly receives HTML mail with no protection, there could be
problems. IIRC TBird has a way of sanitizing HTML messages but it may
not be the default.

poc