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Re:Thunderbird in 2019 by jcranmer on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:53PM (#18808864)
> - Improved storage engine, thunderbird is often freezing to compress folders.

Have you tried migrating to using maildir instead of mbox?

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Re:Thunderbird in 2019 by Boulth on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @02:16PM (#18809083)
Not the OP but help pages seem to suggest Maildir support in TB is not necessarily production quality:

> Maildir is disabled by default because there are still many bugs. It is not 100% ready for users.

Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/maildir-thunderbird

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Re:Thunderbird in 2019 by Deebster on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:50AM (#18813553)
I wonder how up-to-date that warning is, given that the feature was introduced in TB 38 and we're now on TB 60.

Edit: there's still 35 bugs tagged maildir (albeit all unconfirmed or new): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?classification=Clie...

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