Thunderbird Problem

[Wade Smart]

06252006 1421 GMT-6

My largest file under ./mozilla-thunderbird is 173.2 MB
That 50,000 is the number of email messages in one folder.

Im using Gnome. I tried Evolution but just couldnt get the
hang of it - and it wasnt as easy as Thunderbird.

wade

Scott Kitterman wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:58:29 -0500 Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
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>>06252006 1356 GMT-6
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>>I waited 8 hours.
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>>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.
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>>My largest folder 50,000+.
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>>Wade
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>50,000 what?  if it's 50,000 messages, that is a LOT.  I think you are 
>stretching Thunderbird and the mbox file format beyond what it was designed 
>for.
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>If you really need 50,000 messages, then you might want to consider another 
>mail program, particularly one that usese the maildir format (it's one 
>message per file) as that scales better.  I use Kmail and maildir and it 
>handles my 15 - 20,000 message store with no problem.
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>If it's 50,000K, that's still a lot.  See above.
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>If it's 50,000 bytes, then it's something else.
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>Scott K
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