Thunderbird Problem

Wade Smart wade at wadesmart.com
Sun Jun 25 18:58:29 UTC 2006


06252006 1356 GMT-6

I waited 8 hours.

But its not just the slowness. Its the not being able to move
emails from folders until I click on another folder.
Or that the folders themselves display the incorrect number
of emails until I click on another folder and then click back.

My largest folder 50,000+.

Wade

Scott Kitterman wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 06:05:10 -0500 Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
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>>06252006 0603 GMT-6
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>>This morning I turned on Thunderbird and it wont check mail at all.
>>Unless you click on one of the lower Local Folders, it wont check mail.
>>You cant move mail out of the inbox at times unless you click on a
>>local folder and then back to the inbox.
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>>FRUSTRATING!
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>>So, since I didnt copy the whole profile, just the mail, this means
>>that my mail is in some way corrupt?
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>>wade
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>If Thunderbird can read the local mail files (i.e. It displays the mail for 
>you to read) then the file is not corrupted.
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>How big are your mail files?  Thunderbird stores all the mail for each 
>folder in one large mbox file.  When it gets big, it can slow things down.  
>
>How long did you wait before you assumed Thunderbird wasn't going to check 
>mail?  
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>Scott K
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