On 9/14/2016 10:14 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > Well, I found out where all that load was coming from. > > Looks like a recent Thunderbird update reset its config to "keep all > messages for this account on this computer" - for all accounts
The first time this fiasco happened - the update happened that enabled GLODA for all accounts and reset all individual offline folder settings for all accounts - was sometime around the TB 3 - 3.1 update. This was the one time I seriously looked for an alternative to TB, it made me so furious, as I have many (15+) IMAP accounts, most with a LOT of email AND a lot of folders, and with very specific OFFLINE settings for certain folders. If the devs cause this to happen again, I will be even more furious than I was then, even if it is an accident. So, hopefully you are wrong, or it is some obscure bug (maybe triggered by a misbehaved Addon) that will not hit me (or most users). > Given that I'm the admin for some servers, and a bunch of email lists, I > keep filtered spam and viruses for analysis, and I keep email going back > about 30 years.... that kind of causes a lot of synchronization traffic > - to the point of really bogging down our imap daemon. > > Consider this a friendly warning for those of you who use Thunderbird & > IMAP!
