Yeah, I'ld be in favour of a WONTFIX at this point… -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518336
Title: thunderbird-3.0: Please turn off global search by default Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird Hi, the new major version of Thunderbird (3.x) provides the new feature "Global Search" which allows to search over all mailboxes that are managed with Thunderbird. While this feature can be neat and handy for the average home user with small mailboxes, it very soon becomes a major drawback for users with large mailboxes or with Thunderbird installations in corporate networks. With large mailboxes or corporate networks it becomes obvious that downloading the whole mailbox which is necessary for the global search will very quickly eat up all the space. I have around 50,000 emails in one of my IMAP mailboxes and by downloading all mails, Thunderbird 3.0 ended up taking several gigabytes of diskspace in the home directory. However, since this IMAP server resides in the same local network as my machine, downloading all mails does not bring any improvements in speed which would justify the waste of space. In corporate networks, it is also often the case that users have limited quota and a Thunderbird installation which uses alot of space in the home directory can easily result in the users not being able to login anymore (because they have exceeded their quota and no more files can be written upon login as required). I therefore suggest turning *off* global search and downloading of emails from mailboxes by default. It might be neat to have a check box to enable/disable "Global Search" in the setup dialog of Thunderbird which allows to enter your mail account data. Adrian PS: Micah Gersten suggested me to report this as an extra bug in #314668 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Feb 7 11:16:58 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113) Package: thunderbird 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic SourcePackage: thunderbird Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/518336/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
