WTF is wrong with thunderbird????

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/21/2009 02:47 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> OK, so I'm an email hog.  I don't like to use the delete key.  Here's my
> setup:
>
> My email server is F10.i386  (yeah, yeah, I know its EOLed)
> Its up-to-date, running dovecot as my IMAP server.
>
> My laptop is F11.x86_64.  I'm running the new thunderbird 3.0 which was
> just released.
>
> My Inbox was getting very large.>  70,000 messages in it.  While things
> were starting to take a long time to do, yesterday I finally decided to
> do something about it.  I created some 25 (or so) sub-folders in my
> primary email account and set about transferring various emails from my
> Inbox to the sub-folders.  For the most part, I created an email filter
> for every email list I am a member of to automatically move emails from
> each list to its own sub-folder.  It took me a while (>  4 hours).  When
> I was done it was working.  Kinda.  I noticed that I had started seeing
> some really strange problems.
>
> While reading my incoming fedora-list emails (for example), thunderbird
> marked the email I was currently reading as un-read, right before my
> eyes!  It also marked the 3 emails I had *just* read as unread.  While
> going though that mailbox (using the Next button to read the next unread
> email), I read some messages 3-4 times before it finally told me I had
> read everything!
>
> That's when I started to notice that all of a sudden I had 38 unread
> emails in the mailbox I had read previous to the one I was in now.
> When I went back to read them, most of them were familiar!  I had just
> read them.  I wss going nuts.  What's happening?
>
> This morning I st down to read my emails that occurred overnight.
>
> Thunderbird tells me I have 38 unread emails in my Admin box.  When I go
> there to read them, it tells me there are only 24 unread emails!  The
> first one is dated 9/26/2009!  OK, so I read it.  I'm pretty sure I've
> read it before....  I continue to read the other 23 emails.  Then I hit
> the Next button again, and here I am back at this email from 9/26 again!
>
> While I'm writing this email, thunderbird now tells me I have 4 unread
> emails in my Admin mailbox.
>
> One of them is new.  The rest are dated:  5/4/2009, 9/26/2009 (yeup,
> them same one I've read twice already today!), and 10/11/2009, and
> 10/11/2009.  That's right, while I was reading them, it decided to mark
> another already read email as unread!
>
> Am I going nuts????   Oh, wait!  I have 4 unread email in Admin:
> 5/4/2009, 9/26/2009, and those 2 from 10/11/2009 again!
>
> Now its happened again!  Please, someone tell me how to get thunderbird
> to stop this madness!

Welcome to the club - You seem to be facing the same issues as I have 
been facing ever since the TB3 betas hit Fedora.

After things had somewhat smoothed since the inital Fedora release, with 
TB-3.0 (final) last week, things once again turn into "close to being 
unbearable/unusable".

Unfortunately, I don't know if who the culprit actually is:
dovecot, TB3 or x86_64 or else.


Ralf