Every year I like to move my previous year email messages into a different folder, which often results in running into my quota limit. This year, I managed to get the imap move command to keep trying and failing after running out of disk space. To resolve it, I had to do the following:
The move command stopped and I was able to receive mail again.
I’ve been working with Thunderbird 3 in preparation for a deployment at DGP and found an interesting quirk – the message synchronization feature basically turns imap into a cached set of files on the local drive. Since we have quotas on the network space where is data is kept, the file sizes are a big problem (it filled my quota before syncing all the messages). It can be configured through the gui, but I want to change the installer to change this by default.
The best option I’ve seen so far is to change the default preferences file, but I’ll need to get it into the executable installer or change it after the installation. To that end, I created a .cmd file which does a silent install:
ECHO.
ECHO installing thunderbird
ECHO PLEASE WAIT
start /wait \\Wood\SW\Thunderbird\”Thunderbird Setup 3.0.4.exe” -ms
\\Wood\SW\DGPSWscripts\sleep.exe 5
set option=pref(“mail.server.default.autosync_offline_stores”, false);
ECHO.
ECHO installing thunderbird
ECHO PLEASE WAIT
start /wait \\Wood\SW\Thunderbird\”Thunderbird Setup 3.0.4.exe” -ms
\\Wood\SW\DGPSWscripts\sleep.exe 5
set option=pref^(“mail.server.default.autosync_offline_stores”, false)^;
IF %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%==AMD64 echo %option% >> “%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\pref\all-l10n.js”
IF %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%==x86 echo %option% >> “%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\pref\all-l10n.js