[ale] Thunderbird Slowness

[David Ritchie]

Make certain that IPv6 is turned off if it is a configuration option.
Firefox has had this 'feature' forever and it would not surprise me if
Thunderbird has it also. IPv6 DNS lookup have priority under Firefox, and
if turned on must timeout prior to an IPv4 attempt being made. This
manifests itself as a hang for 10 sec or so everytime something gets looked
up.

-- David

P.S. watch the transactions under wireshark, and you may get a better
understanding of what is going on...


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Michael Trausch <mbt at naunetcorp.com> wrote:

> It all depends on configuration. Cache is, for example, all-or-nothing in
> it. For global search, it must be enabled. And if you're using a networked
> $HOME, this is painful. You wind up having to use gmail's interface or beg
> the sysadmin for a server-side global search functionality or similar.
>
> Most of my other complaints aren't that of speed, exactly, but of
> efficiency. For example, I have long since disabled all my plugins and
> addons, yet it insists on tying up a whole core to itself. Quite irritating
> and wasteful so I kill thunderbird when I want the computer to quiet down.
> (Seriously.)
>
> I think that more efficient and intelligent clients that make use of all
> of the modern extensions to IMAP, and used user-configurable caching and
> such. Oh, crap. I am dreaming again. :)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 5, 2013, at 6:22 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> 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>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>
>> 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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