[ale] Thunderbird Slowness

[Leam Hall]

Confirmed, 5G of e-mail, TB 17.0.7, CentOS patched to current. I can 
click on TB and it gets focus faster than I can move the cursor to it.

Part of /proc/cpuinfo, 2 cores:

	processor	: 0
	vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
	cpu family	: 6
	model		: 23
	model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8400  @ 	2.26GHz
	stepping	: 6
	cpu MHz		: 2266.000
	cache size	: 3072 KB


Leam


On 08/05/2013 06:22 PM, leam hall wrote:
> While I won't disagree with Mike's evaluation, Thunderbird is probably
> not your issue. I have about 5G between my gmail and other address, and
> mails dating from 1999. My TB is pretty responsive, even on a non-new
> machine. I can give more details when I get home, but am running on
> CentOS 6.
>
> Leam
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Michael Trausch <mbt at naunetcorp.com
> <mailto:mbt at naunetcorp.com>> wrote:
>
>     Something that has been an increasing annoyance to me, both
>     personally and professionally.
>
>     We have been seriously considering the idea of a modern mail client
>     that is fast, uses modern IMAP extensions, is not Java, and supports
>     secure email inherently.
>
>     Haven't yet had the time, of course. Would that somebody's buy the
>     time. :)
>
>     Anyway. I have yet to find anything that satisfies me and I have
>     been looking for about a year or two. Web clients can be nice but I
>     have a (perhaps snobby) preference for fast, native yet portable and
>     structured code.
>
>     Something where both OpenPGP and S/MIME are natively supported.
>     Something that allows for a local cache, not a replica of the server
>     side. Something where Sieve support is first-class. Something that
>     has a sane and stable backend and is capable of having many
>     different front ends. Something that is widely portable without
>     reliance on a stacked hot mess of C++, XML, JavaScript and all sorts
>     of what I think are utterly over engineered components in e.g. the
>     Mozilla "application framework".
>
>     Something that is only as complex as is necessary to do safe,
>     secure, and practical mail, fast.
>
>     Anyway, enough dreaming... Have to get back to work.
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Chris Fowler
>     <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com <mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>      > I've just about had it with TB 17.0.7 on Ubuntu 12.04.  The
>     problem I'm having is that when ever I focus on TB it takes a few
>     seconds for it to respond.  Minimize the maximize it takes a few
>     seconds before it responds to me clicking on anything.
>      >
>      > Now I could be at fault here.  I have 3 IMAP accounts and one is
>     Gmail.  Each account is huge.
>      >
>      > One IMAP folder (all files in mbox format) is 1.2G. Another is
>     2.5G.  I'm not sure about Gmail.
>      >
>      > Is the problem because I have so many emails?  I do expunge and
>     compact.
>      >
>      > I tried Claws Mail, but it does not render HTML emails.
>      >
>      > I'm thinking of installing a PHP web mail app.  I'm using an
>     older version of OpenWebMail.  Anything much better?
>      >
>      >
>      > Chris
>      >
>      >
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