Can't Move E-mail From a Specific Folder
Problem: I can't move messages from one specific folder to others. This used to work.
Background: I have an old account, one for which the server died. I still have local copies of messages. I want to move them to a folder for a new server. I started moving these old messages.
How I Broke It: I abuse Thunderbird, I know this. I copied up to the new server 19,633 messages with no problem other than it was slow. Each message seemed to stop to look for the old server, I suppose to update the no longer existing server. But now it won't let me move any messages from that local folder. It looks like I broke that big local inbox. I can't seem to move the other 62,050 messages.
Environment: I currently have the server name set to something non-existent. I am running 128.6.0esr on Debian 13 on an AMD Framework 13.
Question: Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks,
-kb
kentborg-mozilla দ্বারা পরিমিত
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You're trying to upload tens of thousands of messages to an IMAP folder, which is not as straightforward as it seems.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1439493
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1460941#answer-1671445
You appear to be talking about local copies of messages stored in a no longer active IMAP account. Is that correct? Sounds like you're compounding the problem of the excessive size of those folders with potential synchronisation issues associated with a no longer active IMAP account, in which case you could make your life easier by moving the mbox files out of the IMAP account folder and into Local Folders instead…
You may still encounter the problem that Thunderbird cannot deal with the big size of those folders, but you wouldn't have to wonder whether trying to connect to the old server has anything to do with it…
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