Thunderbird-3 keeps on downloading already downloaded messages again?

Posted by Vivek Sharma on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Vivek Sharma
Published on 2010-04-05T17:17:41Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 17:23 UTC
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I am using Thunderbird for my gmail account, with IMAP settings. All my folders are synchronized. A very strange behavior, after all my mails are downloaded, TB3 starts downloading email again. At times saying "downloading x out of y messages" where x > y (like now downloading 19 out of 11 messages). Had the same problem in TB3 for windows so, replaced TB with Outlook-07, issue resolved. But on linux, I dont like the evolution's interface, so i have no choice but to stick to TB. Any suggestions how to TB not eat my bandwidth.

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