Thunderbird 3 is a pain in the neck

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, March 01, 2010 10:24 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Monday, March 01, 2010 08:55 AM, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
>> On 01-03-10 01:06, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>> Blasted thing is forever reindexing. A seriously BAD idea when people
>>> have thousands of emails in a folder or something.
>>
>> POP or IMAP?
>> I'm using IMAP, and a folder with 15000 emails took only a minute to
>> reindex from scratch. That's with the download of headers included.
>
> IMAP. A minute? Outlook Express does not even reindex. How's that for
> saving time/not introducing 'lag'? I have multiple folders with
> thousands of emails. It gets annoying when I have wait while Shredder
> stalls to do some reindexing.
>

Well, it looks like the problem was due to the insane default of 
shredder, presumably thanks to the infinite wisdom of the ppa chums, to 
synchronize EVERYTHING. I wondered where that 10G of space came from.

I will see if it reindexes and how bad it gets without keeping local copies.