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   Importance: Medium => High

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Title:
  Mailbox grows endlessly, heavy traffic

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird:
  Fix Released
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in thunderbird source package in Lucid:
  Fix Released
Status in thunderbird source package in Natty:
  Won't Fix
Status in thunderbird source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in thunderbird source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in thunderbird source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Yesterday I noticed that my Internet connection keeps transferring a lot of data. After a while I checked with nethogs and discovered this was caused by Thunderbird.
  Today I got a warning that my HDD was near full.
  In this 2 days, the mailbox had grown to 20 GB, while in reality it should be around 1 GB (a fresh zipped backup has 600 MB).

  I removed the .thunderbird folder and configured my IMAP mailbox from scratch. The same happened again.
  I think this is not related to a somehow special configuration of my PC bcs my colleague discovered it's the same on his machine. Without checking, he wouldn't have noticed yet bcs of a much bigger HDD...

  We couldn't yet find out what exactly happens / which data is transferred again and again.
  I suspect it's related to the last thunderbird update.

  Ubuntu 12.04
  Tunderbird 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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