I don't recall having that bug happen to me for some time. However, it stops only because I understood what was causing some other problem. You have a feature called "Compact Folders" which is bogus and I think that when that other problem occurs, this very bug happens. I have had it with Thunderbird about 2 years ago (when I finally understood that I really had to compact folders.)
The problem with compacting folders was that if a local file grows beyond 2Gb, its size is (most certain) viewed as being negative, which then prevents the auto-compaction from happen. As a result, the file continues to grow "forever"--or more precisely until it reaches 4Gb or whatever the limit is on your OS/Filesystem. Once that limit is reached, then you start seeing this very bug appearing. I guess something doesn't know how to get rid of that email and it the code generates an error on the save which tells another piece of code to try again and hence loops forever and adds new emails all the time. I'm pretty such that the file that caused the problem was the one representing the Junk folder on my Local Folders. When I deleted that file, the problems stopped and by making sure I run the compact folders once in a while, the size is kept in check. So, it's not fixed if that file size / compact test is not fixed. Actually, compact should become mandatory once the file is over 1Gb. Who needs that much data in emails?! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675673 Title: One junk email repeat thousand of times (until thunderbird is stopped) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/675673/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
