Is somebody with the bug willing to test whether it's related to the
offline message size limit? Open the Mail Server properties for a folder
showing this problem (right click on the mail server, select
"Settings...", select the "Synchronization and Storage" settings, and
check whether you have "Don't download messages larger than x KB"
checked.

If you do have it checked, try un-checking it and see if the problem
goes away - your client should download the large messages one more time
and then stop.


I've been looking at the log file on the Launchpad bug, and that log only shows 
us downloading each of the large messages once.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068921

Title:
  Mailbox grows endlessly, heavy traffic

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  In Progress
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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