Beware: Thunderbird (ver 3.0.1) CORRUPTS all email state

[Steve Dickson]

On 01/28/2010 09:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
>> BEWARE!
>>
>> [Bug 559312] thunderbird corrupts mail indices (Old mail marked as new)
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559312
>>
>> For the last 24hrs all my mail state (read/unread, all tags) have
>> been completely destroyed. DO NOT upgrade to version 3.0.1!!!
>>
>> Most of us really take pride in making sure what we push out to
>> the community has been tested and will not be disruptive
>> or destructive. Then there a small group of people that simply
>> don't give a damn what they push out or the havoc they cause.
>> This makes the *entire* community look like crap...
>>
>> My goal here is twofold. One alert everyone that your mail will
>> be destroyed if you upgrade to 3.0.1 and to shine light on
>> shoddy work in hopes they will take pride in one, fixing the
>> problem ASAP and two change their process so things like
>> stop happen...
>>
>> IMHO... events like this is the reason why Linux (Fedora explicitly)
>> is having such a hard time being accepted the mainstream....
>>
> 
> This one's tricky, what checks could have been in place to prevent this?
I don't know... since I'm not a developer of this technology just
a user... But there has to be some way they can to stop major 
problems like this happening... Lets not forget the 3.0 beta release
that was pushed in early F-12 that sucked up 100% of the cpu due to
some new type of indexing... So there is a pattern here... 

steved.