
recreation of global-messages-db.sqlite is getting stuck at gmail IMAP
Hi, I have been forced to do my 2022 taxes and tried to search for my invoices, but it failed. So I followed advice to simply have thunderbird recreate the index.
However, its not working. I collected 15 email addresses over decades and are likely pushing thunderbird a bit, exposing limits on the way.
In this case, I presume (because I cannot really find logs for it) that the IMAP servers are not cooperating and the activity monitor gets stuck because of a request limit at googles IMAP server. We are talking about Gigabytes of mails some with larger attachments in the Sent folder.
What I am asking is for a bit of insight how the indexer could be tricked into finalizing its job. I might not live long enough to see the end of it otherwise ....
Is there a way to modify the timeouts maybe? Or maybe there is a way to download all the mails prior to the indexing, so it can work locally?
The system should be able to handle it (win11,ryzen9, 32GB, 2TB SSD)
Any suggestions please? Thank you for your input.
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I presume (because I cannot really find logs for it) that the IMAP servers are not cooperating and the activity monitor gets stuck because of a request limit at googles IMAP server.
Indexing the Global Search database is happening locally. However, there is no point indexing messages which haven't been downloaded before. Are you saying Thunderbird needs to download Gigabytes of messages from the server to be able to index them? If that's the case then it's quite possible that Gmail is throttling or even hard limiting the amount of data to be transferred within a certain time. https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518
Also, turn on IMAP synchronization, so that Thunderbird can download an offline copy of your messages prior to rebuilding the index. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/imap-synchronization
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