Irving, I got this version from the URL above: 19.0a1 (2012-11-10), and so far so good. :) It certainly doesn't seem to be doing any harm, and over a few hours last night, and so far this morning I haven't seen a repeat of the repetitive downloading. I have now visited every folder on the problematic account, just to be sure.
If I see any problems I will update here immediately, but I definitely vote that this fix go into 17. Thanks, Doug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1074260 Title: Thunderbird heavy IMAP traffic downloading messages Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Fix Released Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Thunderbird (as of version 16?) generates a lot of IMAP traffic, continually redownloading messages. One issue has been resolved (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803843 and https://launchpad.net/bugs/1068921 ) but this issue remains. It is open in bugzilla as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806760 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/1074260/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp