Mozilla thunderbird was eating the disk space
Posted by rajg on January 15, 2010
While checking my disk space at work I was surprised to see that my .mozilla-thunderbird was whopping 30 GB. Since I received many mails during the day – some being system monitoring mails – I was keeping all of them. This helped me most of the times since I can check the state of the system over a give period of time.
So I decided to spent some time and find out which of my local mail folders are having what size. With simple linux/unix command du -h –max-depth=1 ~/.mozilla-thunderbird, I figured out that there was a filterlog.html file under my mozilla profile which was around 26GB. Tailing the file I found that it had log messages for every mail that was filtered from my INBOX to local folders.
I do not know if this was a default setting or I did it by mistake. But for whatever reason I did not need this log. So in order to get rid of such message I went to Tools -> Message Filters and for my inbox folder and disabled the FilterLog.
