There is an option to disable thunderbird making a copy of all email locally. This is known to have had some issues on some versions of Thunderbird, although it was a while ago. It should have been resolved in Mint 17 - but who knows. Also you may try rebuild the index for the folders. (in folders properties) Are you imaping from gmail? Daniel. On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:30:12 +1100 David Zuccaro <david.zuccaro@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
On 03/01/15 15:35, Dan062 wrote:
Which particular functionality of thunderbird is slow?? Everything, click on directories for example. Funny thing is that it seems OK at the moment -- other times it is unusable. I have been monitoring CPU usage in top and there is nothing untoward going on there. Are you poping or imaping? imaping Is this what is slow? maybe. Should I use pop or just completely stop using gmail? I thought IMAP was supposed to be better? Have you updated to latest release? Some release had a few issues, that were fixed later. I'm using Mint 17, I guess I could move to 17.1 but there doesn't seem to be anything mentioned about Thunderbird in "New Features".
-- dan062 <dan062@yahoo.com.au>