Charles writes:
On 7/20/2009, Sam Varshavchik ([email protected]) wrote:Sounds like Thunderbird may be using a 32bit value to represent the total size of the mailbox, which overflowed.Ok, thanks very much Sam for making me look more closely... This is apparently the 'problem'. I started copying the larger messages from her .Sent folder to a new one, and as soon as I dropped below 4GB, the number changed to 3,9##MB... when I added the messages back in, as soon as it got over 4GB, it dropped back to display only 10MB... I also went and looked, and no on else has a single mailbox that is over 4GB... So... my only other question is, is this a TBird BUG, per se? Or is it just the way it is when accessing a large mailbox from a 32 bit Windows/TBird?
Hard to say without knowing exactly how Thunderbird calculates folder sizes. If it adds up the sizes of the individual messages, the overflow can only occur in Thunderbird, of course. There's a small possibility that Thunderbird may be using the QUOTA extension to retrieve the mailbox's size from the server; however for that to work you would've had to explicitly enable quotas on the server, further if your server ran on a 32 bit platform you would not've been able to set quotas in excess of 2 gigabytes anyway.
So, it looks like a Thunderbird issue, very much likely.
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